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Android AutoCompleteTextView with Custom Adapter filtering not working

April 17, 2023 by Tarik

I have to over-ride the getFilter() method of the Adapter Here is the code which worked for me, thanks to sacoskun public class CustomerAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Customer> { private final String MY_DEBUG_TAG = “CustomerAdapter”; private ArrayList<Customer> items; private ArrayList<Customer> itemsAll; private ArrayList<Customer> suggestions; private int viewResourceId; public CustomerAdapter(Context context, int viewResourceId, ArrayList<Customer> items) { super(context, viewResourceId, … Read more

Show all items in AutocompleteTextView without writing text

March 19, 2023 by Tarik

You need to extend AutoCompleteTextView, “When threshold is less than or equals 0, a threshold of 1 is applied.”. setThreshold import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.widget.AutoCompleteTextView; public class InstantAutoComplete extends AutoCompleteTextView { public InstantAutoComplete(Context context) { super(context); } public InstantAutoComplete(Context arg0, AttributeSet arg1) { super(arg0, arg1); } public InstantAutoComplete(Context arg0, AttributeSet arg1, int … Read more

Difference between MultiAutoCompleteTextView and AutoCompleteTextView

March 6, 2023 by Tarik

AutocompleteTextView only offers suggestions about the whole sentence and MultiAutoCompleteTextView offers suggestions for every token in the sentence. You can specify what is the delimiter between tokens. String[] words=new String[] { “word1”, “word2”, “word3”, “word4”, “word5″ }; MultiAutoCompleteTextView macTv = (MultiAutoCompleteTextView) this.findViewById(R.id.mac_tv); ArrayAdapter<String> aaStr = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.dropdown_item,words); macTv.setAdapter(aaStr); macTv.setTokenizer(new MultiAutoCompleteTextView.CommaTokenizer() ); and: <MultiAutoCompleteTextView android:id=”@+id/mac_tv” android:layout_width=”fill_parent” … Read more

Implementing SearchView in action bar

February 1, 2023 by Tarik

It took a while to put together a solution for this, but have found this is the easiest way to get it to work in the way that you describe. There could be better ways to do this, but since you haven’t posted your activity code I will have to improvise and assume you have … Read more

How do I Use AutoCompleteTextView and populate it with data from a web API?

January 23, 2023 by Tarik

I came up with a solution, I don’t know if it is the best solution, but it appears to work very well. What I did was created a custom adapter that extends ArrayAdapter. In the custom adapter I overrode getFilter and created my own Filter class that overrides performFiltering. This starts a new thread so … Read more

Android: AutoCompleteTextView show suggestions when no text entered

November 30, 2022 by Tarik

This is documented behavior: When threshold is less than or equals 0, a threshold of 1 is applied. You can manually show the drop-down via showDropDown(), so perhaps you can arrange to show it when you want. Or, subclass AutoCompleteTextView and override enoughToFilter(), returning true all of time.