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

As "ArtOfWarfare" suggested, you can just sub-class and override performFiltering():

public class My_AutoCompleteTextView extends AutoCompleteTextView {
    public My_AutoCompleteTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }
    public My_AutoCompleteTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }
    public My_AutoCompleteTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @Override
    protected void performFiltering(CharSequence text, int keyCode) {
        super.performFiltering("", 0);
    }
}

I'm using it successfully.