autocompletetextview

This question already has an answer here: Android, ListView IllegalStateException: “The content of the adapter has changed but ListView did not receive a notification” 25 answers I found a lot of questions on the same topic. But I am unable to figure out what I am doing wrong here. Exception: "The content of the adapter has changed but ListView did not receive a notification. Make sure the content of your adapter is not modified from a background thread, but only from the UI thread" I have a TextWatcher to my AutoCompleteTextView. I am trying to update the dropdown list when the text changes.

I've read all of the documentation online about building search interfaces and adding custom suggestions... but I'm still unclear on how this works. The documentation says that I must "Build a table (such as in an SQLiteDatabase) for your suggestions and format the table with required columns". I'm assuming the system will eventually fill this table with the appropriate suggestions on its own... but which process/class is responsible for this, and when will the actual insertions occur (before any query is made by the user, after a query has been made by the user, etc.)? And while I'm asking a

I am using a Custom Adapter with AutoCompleteTextView. It works fine on the emulator and my tablet. However, there is an issue on my phone in landscape mode. The auto complete hints being shown in this mode are object info rather than text. However, when I select any item the fields gets populated correctly with text in the respective fields. Auto Complete for other fields that are based on Android Stock Array Adapter works fine. Do I have to do something for this in my Custom Adapter? I saw only one similar question on SO. One response for that question was talking about overriding the

I have an AutoCompleteTextView in my layout. I also have an alternative way to select the same items which are present in the AutoCompleteTextView. When the alternative way is selected, I populate the value in the AutoCompleteTextView via: autoCompleteTextView.setText(valueFromAlternativeSource); where valueFromAlternativeSource is one of the valid auto complete options. The trouble with this is that the autocomplete dropdown appears when setText is called. Putting the following line after the above doesn't work: autoCompleteTextView.dismissDropDown(); //Doesn't work. Why? Any ideas on why

I've been trying to set the style of my dropdown for the autocomplete for some time now. At the moment it looks like this: The green area is the dropdown with alternatives. I would like to make that box smaller, since it does'nt look very good at the moment with my rounded rectangle. How do i achieve this? So far I have only been able to adjust each line in it.. Found out myself 5 minutes after putting the question here. I'll keep the question up for someone who might come across this. You can simply put dropdown attributes when you create the autocompletetextview. android:dropDownWidth=