How to display custom view in ActionBar?

Question

I want to display custom search in actionbar (I'm using ActionBarSherlock for that).

I got that:

But I want make custom layout (edittext field) to occupy the entire available width.

I've implemented custom layout as suggested here.

There is my custom layout search.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    style="?attr/actionButtonStyle"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
    android:focusable="true" >

    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|fill_horizontal" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/search_query"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="left|center"
            android:background="@drawable/bg_search_edit_text"
            android:imeOptions="actionSearch"
            android:inputType="text" />

        <ImageView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="right|center_vertical"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_search_arrow" />

    </FrameLayout>

</LinearLayout>

And in MyActivity:

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search);

LayoutInflater inflator = (LayoutInflater) this .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = inflator.inflate(R.layout.search, null);

actionBar.setCustomView(v);

How can I make custom layout to occupy all the available width of actionBar?

Help, please.

Answer 1

There is a trick for this. All you have to do is to use RelativeLayout instead of LinearLayout as the main container. It's important to have android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal" set for it. That should do it.