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Exported May 9, 2026
The answer from Jon Willis works great. This is an improvement to his answer. First, create a new class that implements View.OnFocusChangeListener : Next, set the listener on your SearchView :
This will get the Toolbar / ActionBar when using the native ActionBar , your own Toolbar from appcompat, or the native Toolbar on Lollipop:
I wrote this class to help with SearchView customization: https://gist.github.com/jaredrummler/c408c9d897fd92d5d116 You could do something like this after inflating the menu in onCreateOptionsMenu :
Your Activity ( Moovo ) inherits the application theme specified in your AndroidManifest . Your theme is a parent of Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar . This theme removes the native android.app.ActionBar which is why...
Unfortunately, there is no way to set the menu item icon color's tint using a theme or style. You need a method to check if the MenuItem is visible on the ActionBar or in the overflow menu. Both the native and support...