In order for android search menu to appear in toolbar, we need to use setSupportActionBar like this:.TextView mEmptyView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.emptyView) ListView mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list) Toolbar mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar) Next we need to define the toolbar, listview and textview inside (MainActivity.java) file like this:.

Now let’s create a menu folder and file, this menu file will have the search menu item that later will show up in android toolbar.

Next we need to create a string array of items that we need to show them in the listview, this string array will have the name of the months in a year like this:.

Open up (activity_main.xml) file and here we will need to add android toolbar to be able to show the search icon later, then we need to add android listview to be able to show the list of items and add an android textview, we use this textview when the listview don’t have any data and show this textview instead to indicate to the user that there is no data available.

Open (styles.xml) file and change the parent theme from ( ) to ( ) like We changed the parent theme in (styles.xml) file because we want to create a toolbar instead of using the actionbar.

Open up Android Studio and create a new project and give it a name, in our case we’ve named it (ToolbarSearchview), choose API 16 as the minimum SDK, then choose blank activity and click on finish and wait for Android Studio to build your project.

In this tutorial we will be using the following: The final result will look something like this: Hi and welcome to another tutorial from codingdemos, today you will learn how to build an android app that uses android toolbar searchview, using android searchview will allow your users to search for something through your app.

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