How to persistence search text

[webserveis]

with .setKeepQuery(true) add persistence last query, but is there any way to initialize the text to a specific value?

[webserveis]

Hey, I found this

        searchView.setQuery("set default text", false)

false: no submit result
true: propagate submit result

[67Samuel]

This does not set the text for me, I do the following but it just gives me an empty search view:

    if (queryText.isNotEmpty()) {
            searchView.showSearch()
            searchView.setQuery(queryText, false)
        }

[goemic]

It's important to wait until layout is ready:

mBinding.searchView.doOnLayout { _ ->
       // wait for layout to be finished, otherwise showSearch() will not work
       mBinding.searchView.showSearch()
       // text needs to be set after showSearch() is called!
      mBinding.searchView.setQuery(voucherSearchString, false)
}

If you want to enable searchView.setKeepQuery(true) you can also set the query value before opening the searchView:

mBinding.searchView.doOnLayout { _ ->
      mBinding.searchView.setKeepQuery(true)
      mBinding.searchView.setQuery(voucherSearchString, false)
      mBinding.searchView.showSearch()
}