Setting multiple custom elements to MultiAutoCompleteTextView : Android

Question

Continuing from my previous post, I was able to set multiple elements to the MultiAutoCompleteTextView but I was not able to wrap those items with custom backg

Answer 1

I think you have problem here:

mMultiAutoCompleteTextView.setText(mMultiAutoCompleteTextView.getText().toString()+", "+sb);

When you call mMultiAutoCompleteTextView.getText().toString(), you convert your spannableString to ordinary string, which can't hold background or smth else.

Try to save your current SpannableStringBuilder somewhere and work like that:

mBuilder.append(sb);
  mMultiAutoCompleteTextView.setText(mBuilder);