Design SearchBox programatically in android

[izharcse]

Hi i want to design SearchBox Control programatically to search operation in my apps

[tabrej]

So? Whats the problem. Go ahead.

[Member 10434797]

I want (programmatically of course) to open the searchview (make it "in use"). I tried several functions such as: SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView(); searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this); searchView.performClick(); searchView.requestFocus(); But none of those worked... The SearchView in the XML: Thank's