How to disable AutoCompleteTextView's drop-down from showing up?

Question

I use the following code to set text to an AutoCompleteTextView field. But I noticed that when I set certain text (not all text, but some) to it, it will automatically pop u

Answer 1

You can try these steps:

1. When setting the text, also set the Threshold value to a large value so that the dropdown doesnot come.

    actv.setThreshold(1000);
   

2. Then override the OnTouch to set the threshold back to 1.

      actv.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
                   @Override
       public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
           actv.setThreshold(1);
           return false;
       }
   });
   

Answer 2

Funny trick. Works 100% :)

tv.setThreshold(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
tv.setText(station.getName());
tv.setThreshold(1);

Answer 3

Another solution is to clear the focus before setting the text:

mContactTxt.setFocusable(false);
mContactTxt.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
mContactTxt.setText("");            
mContactTxt.setFocusable(true);
mContactTxt.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

Answer 4

setText("someText",false)

false means that it is not filtering

Answer 5

dismissDropDown() works well in an adapter:

        SimpleCursorAdapter autoCompleteAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
                    android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, null,
                    new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME },
                    new int[] { android.R.id.text1 }, 0);
        mSearchView.setAdapter(autoCompleteAdapter); 
        autoCompleteAdapter.setFilterQueryProvider(new FilterQueryProvider() {
            @Override
            public Cursor runQuery(CharSequence constraint) {
               mSearchView.dismissDropDown();
               // return your query code
            }
        });

Hope it will be helpful.

Answer 6

I have solved the same problem with this code:

contacts_search.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                contacts_search.dismissDropDown();      
            }

            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                    int after) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                contacts_search.dismissDropDown();
            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                contacts_search.dismissDropDown();
            }
        });

Here, contacts_search is my AutoCompleteTextView