Custom Listview Adapter with filter Android

Question

Please am trying to implement a filter on my listview. But whenever the text change, the list disappears.Please Help Here are my codes. The adapter class.

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Answer 1

You can implement search filter in listview by two ways. 1. using searchview 2. using edittext.

1. If yo want to use searchview then read here : searchview filter.

2. If you want to use edittext, read below.

I have taken reference from : listview search filter android

Code snippets to make filter with edittext.

First create model class MovieNames.java:

public class MovieNames {
    private String movieName;

    public MovieNames(String movieName) {
        this.movieName = movieName;
    }

    public String getMovieName() {
        return this.movieName;
    }

}

Create listview_item.xml file :

Make ListViewAdapter.java class :

    import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Locale;

public class ListViewAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    // Declare Variables

    Context mContext;
    LayoutInflater inflater;
    private ArrayList arraylist;

    public ListViewAdapter(Context context, ArrayList arraylist) {
        mContext = context;
        inflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);
        this.arraylist = arraylist;

    }

    public class ViewHolder {
        TextView name;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return arraylist.size();
    }

    @Override
    public MovieNames getItem(int position) {
        return arraylist.get(position);
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return position;
    }

    public View getView(final int position, View view, ViewGroup parent) {
        final ViewHolder holder;
        if (view == null) {
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.listview_item, null);
            // Locate the TextViews in listview_item.xml
            holder.name = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.name);
            view.setTag(holder);
        } else {
            holder = (ViewHolder) view.getTag();
        }
        // Set the results into TextViews
        holder.name.setText(arraylist.get(position).getMovieName());
        return view;
    }


} 

Prepare activity_main.xml file :

Finally make MainActivity.java class :

    import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SearchView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private EditText etsearch;
    private ListView list;
    private ListViewAdapter adapter;
    private String[] moviewList;
    public static ArrayList movieNamesArrayList;
    public static ArrayList array_sort;
    int textlength = 0;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Generate sample data

        moviewList = new String[]{"Xmen", "Titanic", "Captain America",
                "Iron man", "Rocky", "Transporter", "Lord of the rings", "The jungle book",
                "Tarzan","Cars","Shreck"};

        list = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);

        movieNamesArrayList = new ArrayList<>();
        array_sort = new ArrayList<>();

        for (int i = 0; i < moviewList.length; i++) {
            MovieNames movieNames = new MovieNames(moviewList[i]);
            // Binds all strings into an array
            movieNamesArrayList.add(movieNames);
            array_sort.add(movieNames);
        }

        adapter = new ListViewAdapter(this,movieNamesArrayList);
        list.setAdapter(adapter);


        etsearch = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);

        list.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, array_sort.get(position).getMovieName(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });

        etsearch.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {


            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            }

            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
            }

            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                textlength = etsearch.getText().length();
                array_sort.clear();
                for (int i = 0; i < movieNamesArrayList.size(); i++) {
                    if (textlength <= movieNamesArrayList.get(i).getMovieName().length()) {
                        Log.d("ertyyy",movieNamesArrayList.get(i).getMovieName().toLowerCase().trim());
                        if (movieNamesArrayList.get(i).getMovieName().toLowerCase().trim().contains(
                                etsearch.getText().toString().toLowerCase().trim())) {
                            array_sort.add(movieNamesArrayList.get(i));
                        }
                    }
                }
                    adapter = new ListViewAdapter(MainActivity.this, array_sort);
                    list.setAdapter(adapter);

            }
        });

    }
}