SearchView's OnCloseListener doesn't work

I also meet this problem, and I have no choice but give up "oncloselistener". Instead, you can get your menuItem, then setOnActionExpandListener. Then override unimplents methods.

@Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    Log.d("*******","onMenuItemActionExpand");
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
    //do what you want to when close the sesarchview
    //remember to return true;
    Log.d("*******","onMenuItemActionCollapse");
    return true;
}

For Android API 14+ (ICS and greater) use this code:

// When using the support library, the setOnActionExpandListener() method is
// static and accepts the MenuItem object as an argument
MenuItemCompat.setOnActionExpandListener(menuItem, new OnActionExpandListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item) {
        // Do something when collapsed
        return true;  // Return true to collapse action view
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) {
        // Do something when expanded
        return true;  // Return true to expand action view
    }
});

For more information: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#ActionView

Ref: onActionCollapse/onActionExpand

For this problem I came up with something like this,

private SearchView mSearchView;

@TargetApi(14)
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{

    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.conversation_index_activity_menu, menu);

    mSearchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch).getActionView();

    MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.itemSearch);

    int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if (currentapiVersion >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH)
    {
        menuItem.setOnActionExpandListener(new OnActionExpandListener()
        {

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem item)
            {
                // Do something when collapsed
                Log.i(TAG, "onMenuItemActionCollapse " + item.getItemId());
                return true; // Return true to collapse action view
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item)
            {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                Log.i(TAG, "onMenuItemActionExpand " + item.getItemId());
                return true;
            }
        });
    } else
    {
        // do something for phones running an SDK before froyo
        mSearchView.setOnCloseListener(new OnCloseListener()
        {

            @Override
            public boolean onClose()
            {
                Log.i(TAG, "mSearchView on close ");
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                return false;
            }
        });
    }


    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

}

I ran into same problem on android 4.1.1. Looks like it is a known bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25758

Anyway, as a workaround i used state change listener (when SearchView is detached from action bar, it is also closed obviously).

view.addOnAttachStateChangeListener(new OnAttachStateChangeListener() {

    @Override
    public void onViewDetachedFromWindow(View arg0) {
        // search was detached/closed
    }

    @Override
    public void onViewAttachedToWindow(View arg0) {
        // search was opened
    }
});

Above code worked well in my case.

I post same answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24573266/2162924

I ended up using a bit of a hack, that works well for my purpose - not sure it'll work with all purposes. Anyway, I'm doing a check to see if the search query is empty. This is not really related to the SearchView's OnCloseListener though - that still doesn't work!

searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
                if (newText.length() > 0) {
                    // Search
                } else {
                    // Do something when there's no input
                }
                return false;
            }
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) { return false; }
        });