search places doesn't work

[forrestguice]

Trying to search for locations in the Places activity doesn't seem to work. The search menu item doesn't respond to presses - it should replace the text "Places" with an EditText that allows filtering the list.

There is an exception when the activity is first launched:

2022-03-04 10:08:25.407 25225-25225/? W/SupportMenuInflater: Cannot instantiate class: android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
    java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: android.support.v7.widget.SearchView.<init> [class android.content.Context]
        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2332)
        at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1728)
        at android.support.v7.view.SupportMenuInflater$MenuState.newInstance(SupportMenuInflater.java:502)
        at android.support.v7.view.SupportMenuInflater$MenuState.setItem(SupportMenuInflater.java:462)
        at android.support.v7.view.SupportMenuInflater$MenuState.addItem(SupportMenuInflater.java:483)
        at android.support.v7.view.SupportMenuInflater.parseMenu(SupportMenuInflater.java:200)
        at android.support.v7.view.SupportMenuInflater.inflate(SupportMenuInflater.java:122)
        at com.forrestguice.suntimeswidget.getfix.PlacesListFragment.onCreateOptionsMenu(PlacesListFragment.java:176)
        at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.performCreateOptionsMenu(Fragment.java:2353)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.dispatchCreateOptionsMenu(FragmentManager.java:3088)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentController.dispatchCreateOptionsMenu(FragmentController.java:319)
        at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreatePanelMenu(FragmentActivity.java:363)
        at android.support.v7.view.WindowCallbackWrapper.onCreatePanelMenu(WindowCallbackWrapper.java:98)
        at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplBase$AppCompatWindowCallbackBase.onCreatePanelMenu(AppCompatDelegateImplBase.java:335)
        at android.support.v7.view.WindowCallbackWrapper.onCreatePanelMenu(WindowCallbackWrapper.java:98)
        at android.support.v7.app.ToolbarActionBar.populateOptionsMenu(ToolbarActionBar.java:454)
        at android.support.v7.app.ToolbarActionBar$1.run(ToolbarActionBar.java:61)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:241)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7604)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:941)

It tests correctly in the emulator running api31, and an older device running api19, but fails on another device running api30. The difference seems to be between debug and release mode - proguard appears to be at fault.

Since almost all users are running a release build, it seems this feature may have been broken since its introduction.