android - softkeyboard keeps hiding after expanding Searchview programmatically (w/ Search Button) -

i using searchview support library in appcombat actionbar. on emulator works intended. can open clicking menu item or using search button on device , keyboard shown.

@override public boolean onkeydown(int keycode, keyevent event) {     if(keycode == keyevent.keycode_search) {         if(!menuitemcompat.isactionviewexpanded(searchitem)) {             menuitemcompat.expandactionview(searchitem);         } else menuitemcompat.collapseactionview(searchitem);     }     return super.onkeydown(keycode, event); } 

on expanding set saved text.

menuitemcompat.setonactionexpandlistener(searchitem, new menuitemcompat.onactionexpandlistener(){          @override         public boolean onmenuitemactioncollapse(menuitem item) {             // todo auto-generated method stub             return true;         }          @override         public boolean onmenuitemactionexpand(menuitem item) {             searchview.onactionviewexpanded(); // initialize searchview             searchview.setquery(searchtext, false);             searchview.requestfocus();             return true;         }      }); 

problem:

on hardware device (htc desire hd, android 2.3), when press device's search button searchview expands , softkeyboard shows part of second , hides again. clicking menuitem works fine , shows keyboard intended. there seems method hiding keyboard again after focusing searchview. tried several stuff (setonquerytextfocuschangelistener manually showing softinput) none seem work on device.

i hope got solution. thanks

it looks searchview has lost focus after setting searchtext. try adding before calling requestfocus.

searchview.setfocusable(true);