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

I too faced a scenario and I resolved in this way.

1. Store the values that you want to show, in a static way (Ex.POJO).
2. Check whether the stored static variable is not null and not empty.
3. if, its not empty / not null / its length greater than 0, set dismissDropDown() for that autocompleteTextView.

Please find the below snippet

if(null != testText && testText.length() != 0) {
    mAutoCompleteSearch.setText(incomingActivity.toString());
    mAutoCompleteSearch.dismissDropDown(); //Dismiss the drop down
    } else {
    mAutoCompleteSearchDocketActivity.setText("");
            // Here it(drop down) will be shown automatically
    }

Hope, this would help for someone, Cheers !