How to get text from AutoCompleteTextView?

Question

I have an AutoCompleteTextView in my app which works. I have successfully created an onClickItemListener. The question is how to grab the text the

Answer 1

Yeah... unfortunately the name of the parameters on the onItemClick method you must implement are not so self-descriptive but here is an example with the names of what they are:

autoCompleteTextView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long rowId) {
        String selection = (String)parent.getItemAtPosition(position);
        //TODO Do something with the selected text
    }
});

• parent The AdapterView where the click happened.
• view The view within the AdapterView that was clicked (this will be a view provided by the adapter)
• position The position of the view in the adapter
• id The row id of the item that was clicked.

For more info see: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AdapterView.OnItemClickListener.html

Answer 2

One another of getting text of suggestion selected in AutoCompleteTextView is

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,int position, long id) 
{
    TextView txtvw=(TextView) view;
    String str=txtvw.getText().toString();
    int index = contactNames.indexOf(str);
} 

Answer 3

I think what you are looking for is this.

String s = this.mCountry.getEditableText().toString();

Where mCountry is the AutoCompleteTextView.

this.mCountry = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_country);
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapterCountry = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.list_item, countries);
    this.mCountry.setAdapter(adapterCountry);

mCountry is the list of countries, and I wanted to save the country selected in SharedPreferences.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Here is the code that will solve the problem.

 private AdapterView.OnItemClickListener onItemClickListener = new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
        int index = (int) view.getTag();
        Object item = parent.getItemAtPosition(index);
        if (item instanceof SearchItemShareConnectionDAO) {
            SearchItemShareConnectionDAO dao = (SearchItemShareConnectionDAO) item;

        }
    }
};

SetTag(Dao.getPosition) in getView() method of adapter.

Answer 5

try this:

txtPurpose.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
                                long arg3) {
            Purpose selected = (Purpose) arg0.getAdapter().getItem(arg2);
            txtPurpose.setTag(selected);
        }
    });

Answer 6

arg0 being your AdapterView and arg2 the position.

Have you tried:

arg0.getItemAtPosition(arg2);