Auto Complete TextView

 Auto Complete TextView in Android

Auto complete text view is Editable TextView which gives suggestion when we type related character in textview.

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as shown bellow:

In android we can use Autocomplete TextView in two way
1) AutoComplete TextView :
   Which will show only strings which we assign to it using ArrayAdapter<String>.
2) Custom AutoComplete Text View :
In custom we can assign strings and also images with strings and so on..



1) AutoComplete TextView:

So lets first see the example of Autocomplete TextView.

So check out my project structure  bellow and create yours:

main.xml

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

 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  
   android:layout_width="match_parent"  
   android:layout_height="match_parent"  
   tools:context="com.ygutte.autocomplete_textview.MainActivity">  

   <AutoCompleteTextView  
     android:id="@+id/actv"  
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_width="200dp"  
     android:textSize="12sp"  
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true">  
     </AutoCompleteTextView>  
 </RelativeLayout>  

MainActivity

 package com.ygutte.autocomplete_textview;
 import android.app.Activity;
 import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
 import android.widget.AutoCompleteTextView;

 public class MainActivity extends Activity
 {

    AutoCompleteTextView textViewCity;
    @Override    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        textViewCity = (AutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(R.id.actv);
        //String[] Cities = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.Array_city);
        String[] Cities = {"Mumbai", "Pune","Hyderabad","Kolkata","Chennai","Bengaluru"};

        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter =new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(),R.layout.support_simple_spinner_dropdown_item,Cities);
        textViewCity.setAdapter(adapter);
        textViewCity.setThreshold(1);

    }
}

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Try above example and Happy coding .......