Cross to clear search box overlaps overflow menu in Android 6

[Chris Thompson]

As shown in the attached image, in Android 6, the cross to clear the search bar is overlapping with the overflow menu.

In Android versions 5 and below, the overflow menu correctly displays alongside the cross.

This looks like a similar issue to the one described on this thread:

https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/issues/629

I tried changing android:showAsAction="always" to android:showAsAction="collapseActionView|ifRoom" as mentioned in that thread, but then the search box disappeared completely.

The XML for my search activity is here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item android:id="@+id/search"

          android:showAsAction="always"

          android:title="@string/search"          

          android:actionViewClass="com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView" />

    <item android:id="@+id/user_language"

          android:showAsAction="never"

          android:title="@string/user_language" />

    <item android:id="@+id/rate_app"

          android:showAsAction="never"

          android:title="@string/rate_app" />

    <item android:id="@+id/send_feedback"

          android:showAsAction="never"

          android:title="@string/send_feedback" />

    <item android:id="@+id/about"

          android:showAsAction="never"

          android:title="@string/about" />

</menu>

My SearchActivity.java code is also attached.

In my build.gradle:

    compile 'com.actionbarsherlock:actionbarsherlock:4.4.0@aar'

Any suggestions how I can fix this?

Chris

[Chris Thompson]

The specific Android version was 6.0.1. The device tested was a Galaxy S6 phone.