Autocompletion delay

Question

I\'ve got to set an autocompletion for my application.

I\'ve already understood the AutoCompleteTextView operation, but I\'d like to dynamically modify the Stri

Answer 1

I'd keep a long named lastPress as a field on my TextWatcher. When you press a key, set lastPress = System.currentTimeMillis(). Then just wrap your entire onTextChanged in a if with condition if(System.currentTimeMillis() - lastPress>500) and set lastPress again in that if.

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new TextWatcher(){
    long lastPress = 0l;
    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s,
             int start, int before, int count){
        if(System.currentTimeMillis() - lastpress > 500){
            lastPress= System.currentTimeMillis();
            GetAutocompletion ac = new GetAutocompletion();
            ac.execute(zipBox.getText().toString());
        }
    }
    // Other methods to implement
}