AutoCompleteTextView force to show all items

Question

There is a moment in my app, that I need to force to show all items in the suggestion list, no matter what the user has typed. How can I do that?

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Answer 1

You don't define the "moment" when you want to display all the results, so I hope this fits. But try something like this:

AutoCompleteTextView autoComplete;
String savedText;

public void showAll() {
    savedText = autoComplete.getText().toString();
    autoComplete.setText("");
    autoComplete.showDropDown();
}

public void restore() {
    autoComplete.setText(savedText);
}