Question

When I try to add an ActionbarSherlock SearchView to my ActionBar the application crashes as soon as the activity should be shown. As reason for this, I found the following in LogCat:

10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): Cannot instantiate class: com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView
...
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:417)
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:587)
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  ... 32 more
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873): Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a ColorStateList (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x7f01001f a=-1}
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at android.content.res.Resources.loadColorStateList(Resources.java:2035)
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at android.content.res.TypedArray.getColorStateList(TypedArray.java:342)
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:768)
10-22 21:22:51.070: W/MenuInflater(21873):  at android.widget.TextView.<init>(TextView.java:442)

When I use the regular android.widget.SearchView for the android:actionViewClass everything works fine.
I followed the tutorial from the Android website.

This is my menu xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_search"
        android:actionViewClass="com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"
        android:title="@string/menu_search"/>

    <item android:id="@+id/menu_add_page"
        android:title="@string/menu_add_page"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_add"
        android:showAsAction="always" />

    <item android:id="@+id/menu_settings"
        android:title="@string/menu_settings"
        android:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>

And this is the relevant code:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_overview, menu);

    // Get the SearchView and set the searchable configuration
    SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView();
    searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));

    return true;
}

Is this a (known) bug, or am I missing something else here?

Answer 1

SearchView in ActionbarSherlock is / was a known issue. The dev branch contains the support, however it is not complete and seems they are still having issues with Suggestions.

See github here and here for reference.

Here is a link to the ActionBarSherlock > SearchView Source