How to style Android SearchView like in Google Play Store app?

You might try to deep dive into this project:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Dialer/

For Lollipop or Marshmallow, or N it has a SearchEditTextLayout which is what you need:

Advantage

• a code made by Google, not third party.

You have to use this Custom Implementation of SearchView.

https://github.com/Quinny898/PersistentSearch

Android Studio:

Add the Sonatype repository if you have not already:

maven {        url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"    }

Import it as a dependency:

compile 'com.quinny898.library.persistentsearch:library:1.1.0-SNAPSHOT'

In your layout:

<com.quinny898.library.persistentsearch.SearchBox        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:id="@+id/searchbox"        />

Output :

I myself was trying to build this. Ended up just making the search button an ImageButton. a click on this would Trigger a Fragment to be added on top which would contain an Edittext inside an layout made to look like this. and this Fragment consisted of a listview below this searchbox to show suggestions.

Tip: Keep the Fragment's rootlayout without any background and set clickable to true to achieve best results with a transparent pane