I have used Sherlock search view widget in action bar for search menu. The code snippet for initializing the search view
MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);
item.expandActionView();
mSearchView = (SearchView) item.getActionView();
mSearchView.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
mSearchView.setQuery(query, false);
mSearchView.clearFocus();
The above code shows expanded search view with default search query. The problem is when I press back button the search view again collapses before returning to previous activity in android. I don't want the search view to collapse on back key press. How to prevent search view from collapsing on back key press?