AutoCompleteTextView background/foreground color

Question

I am working on AutoCompleteTextView.Its working fine but the dropdown text is always white text on white background. this picture explain my problem

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Answer 1

If you want to change the look of the dropdown items change the XML layout you pass to the ArrayAdapter, (in your case this is android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line).

Lets make a new layout named my_list_item.xml in res/layout:

This text is smaller, blue, and centered. I don't recommend using this layout, it's more to demonstrate that you can customize it.

Now use this instead:

view = (AutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(R.id.text);        
ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, R.layout.my_list_item, data);
view.setAdapter(adapter);

When you set attributes here (like the text color):

You are only changing the box above the dropdown list (the box that you see before you interact with the AutoCompleteTextView). Hope that helps!