[Android] Fixed: SearchHandler not displaying default search and clear icons

[Tamilarasan-Paranthaman]

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Root Cause of the issue

• In the current implementation, the default icons were not assigned to the buttons when the user did not explicitly provide custom icons in the SearchHandler. As a result, the clear button was rendered without an icon, although it remained interactable and performed the expected clear action when tapped.

Description of Change

• Updated the logic to assign default icons to the search and clear buttons when custom icons are not provided in the SearchHandler. This ensures that the default icons are properly displayed, resolving the issue on Android.

Issues Fixed

Fixes #29973

Tested the behaviour in the following platforms

• Android
• iOS
• Mac
• Windows

Screenshot

Before Fix	After Fix
Before-Fix.mov	After-Fix.mov

[dotnet-policy-service]

Hey there @@Tamilarasan-Paranthaman! Thank you so much for your PR! Someone from the team will get assigned to your PR shortly and we'll get it reviewed.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR ensures that Android’s SearchHandler displays default search and clear icons when no custom icons are provided.

• Updated the Android handler to assign default icon resources if no custom image is set.
• Added a sample HostApp page to configure and trigger the SearchHandler.
• Introduced a UI test to automate tapping the trigger and capturing a screenshot.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue29973.cs	New UI test class that taps the trigger button and takes a screenshot
src/Controls/tests/TestCases.HostApp/Issues/Issue29973.cs	HostApp sample initializing SearchHandler and a button to trigger it
src/Controls/src/Core/Compatibility/Handlers/Shell/Android/ShellSearchView.cs	Handler update: use default icon resources when no custom image set

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

src/Controls/src/Core/Compatibility/Handlers/Shell/Android/ShellSearchView.cs:330

• Please update the public XML docs under /docs/ to describe that default SearchHandler icons are now assigned when no custom icons are provided, so documentation matches the new behavior.

else if (defaultImage != -1)

src/Controls/tests/TestCases.Shared.Tests/Tests/Issues/Issue29973.cs:21

• [nitpick] Consider adding an assertion to explicitly verify that the default search and clear icons are visible after invoking the handler, rather than relying solely on a screenshot comparison.

VerifyScreenshot();

[Copilot]

Default icons set via SetImageResource lack a content description, which may hinder accessibility; consider calling AutomationPropertiesProvider.SetContentDescription with a suitable description for the default icons.

Suggested change

	result.SetImageResource(defaultImage);
	result.SetImageResource(defaultImage);
	AutomationPropertiesProvider.SetContentDescription(result, "Default icon", null, null);

[jsuarezruiz]

/azp run MAUI-UITests-public

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[aheubusch]

Fyi, a PR fixing the same bug was recently merged #25067

[sheiksyedm]

Closing in favour of #25067