How to disable AutoCompleteTextView's drop-down from showing up?

Question

I use the following code to set text to an AutoCompleteTextView field. But I noticed that when I set certain text (not all text, but some) to it, it will automatically pop u

Answer 1

You can try these steps:

1. When setting the text, also set the Threshold value to a large value so that the dropdown doesnot come.

    actv.setThreshold(1000);
   

2. Then override the OnTouch to set the threshold back to 1.

      actv.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
                   @Override
       public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
           actv.setThreshold(1);
           return false;
       }
   });