Auto Collapse ActionBar SearchView on Soft Keyboard close

Question

I am currently using an ActionBar menu item to display a SearchView in the action bar. When the search menu item is expanded the soft keyboard is displayed which is what I want. Now, when the user presses the back button to close the soft keyboard, I would also like to collapse the SearchView in the action bar.

I have tried implementing the following listeners OnKeyListener and OnFocusChangeListener on the MenuItem and the ActionView. I have also tried using OnBackPressed() in the Activity. None of the above detect when the back button is used to close the soft keyboard.

Any ideas?

I have implemented OnActionExpandListener to know when the SearchView is visible.

Answer 1

I'll expand on @user1258568 's answer for the lazy. This worked for me. Note that it clears your query when focus is lost.

final MenuItem searchMenuItem = optionsMenu.findItem(R.id.search);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) searchMenuItem.getActionView();

searchView.setOnQueryTextFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean queryTextFocused) {
        if(!queryTextFocused) {
            searchMenuItem.collapseActionView();
            searchView.setQuery("", false);
        }
    }
});