autocompletetextview

I am using AutoCompleteTextView , when the user clicks on it, I want to show suggestions even if it has no text - but setThreshold(0) works exactly the same as setThreshold(1) - so the user has to enter at least 1 character to show the suggestions. CommonsWare 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. David Vávra Here is my class

I want to use an AutoCompleteTextView in my activity and populate the data as the user types by querying a web API. How do I go about doing this? Do I create a new class and override AutoCompleteTextView.performFiltering , or do I use a custom list adapter and provide a custom android.widget.Filter that overrides performFiltering? Or is there a better way to obtain my end goal? I've done something somewhat similar, but it was for the Quick Search box and it involved implementing a service, but I believe that's not what I want to do here. AJ. I came up with a solution, I don't know if it is the

I've been having difficulty creating a custom ArrayAdapter for AutoCompleteTextView such errors that would come up despite following code found on the internet would be: Dropdown would not appear. Custom Objects and their details would not appear. So for those who are having or had the same problem as me, I recommend using BaseAdapter for AutoCompleteTextView instead. BNK The following is my working code using ArrayAdapter . Let's assume the reponse data from web service looks like the following: [ { "id": "1", "name": "Information Technology" }, { "id": "2", "name": "Human Resources" }, { "id