Instead of limiting in listener, I solved it getting EditText
in SearchView
.
I was using this method to get EditText
but it was returning null,
searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
int id = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
EditText etSearchView = (EditText) searchView.findViewById(id);
etSearchView.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(5)});
Instead of getting id
of EditText
I just passed it's actual id and it worked,
searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
EditText etSearchView = (EditText) searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_txt);
etSearchView.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(5)});