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 also enable/disable the drop-down like so:

// disable
actv.setDropDownHeight(0);
// enable
actv.setDropDownHeight(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

Answer 2

You can try

searchInput.setAdapter((ArrayAdapter<String>) null);
searchInput.setText(text);
searchInput.setAdapter(adapter);

Source

Answer 3

Maybe it is to late, but I've found elegant solution for this problem:

Disable filtering before setting text and enabling it after (instead of playing with focus or/and delays). You should use custom control in this case.

See example below:

public class CustomCompliteTextView extends AutoCompleteTextView {

    private boolean mIsSearchEnabled = true;

    public CustomCompliteTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CustomCompliteTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public CustomCompliteTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public void setSearchEnabled(boolean isEnabled) {
        mIsSearchEnabled = isEnabled;
    }

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

And usage:

    text.setSearchEnabled(false);
    text.setText("Text you want to set");
    // optional, if you also want to set correct selection
    text.setSelection(text.getText().length());
    text.setSearchEnabled(true);

Answer 4

I need to add some delay to make this thing work.

This worked for me:

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        if(carModel.isPopupShowing())
            carModel.dismissDropDown();
}}, 500);

Answer 5

I too faced a scenario and I resolved in this way.

1. Store the values that you want to show, in a static way (Ex.POJO).
2. Check whether the stored static variable is not null and not empty.
3. if, its not empty / not null / its length greater than 0, set dismissDropDown() for that autocompleteTextView.

Please find the below snippet

if(null != testText && testText.length() != 0) {
    mAutoCompleteSearch.setText(incomingActivity.toString());
    mAutoCompleteSearch.dismissDropDown(); //Dismiss the drop down
    } else {
    mAutoCompleteSearchDocketActivity.setText("");
            // Here it(drop down) will be shown automatically
    }

Hope, this would help for someone, Cheers !