SearchView remove blue focus line and show cursor at certain position

I was able to solve it by setting the background of the default searchview plate as follows

int searchPlateId = searchView.getContext().getResources()            .getIdentifier("android:id/search_plate", null, null);    View searchPlateView = searchView.findViewById(searchPlateId);    if (searchPlateView != null) {        searchPlateView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);    }

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You can use

android:queryBackground="@android:color/transparent"

I was able to make it work by clearingfocus on the search edit text during the menu creation function. Code below:

@Override    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);        ...        final MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);        if (searchItem != null) {            // Associate searchable configuration with the SearchView            SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);            final SearchView view = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();            if(view !=null){                LinearLayout searchPlate = (LinearLayout)mSearchView.findViewById(R.id.search_plate);                if(searchPlate != null){                    mSearchEditText = (EditText)searchPlate.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);                    if(mSearchEditText != null){                        mSearchEditText.clearFocus();     // This fixes the keyboard from popping up each time                    }                }            }        }}