AutoCompleteTextView background/foreground color

Question

I am working on AutoCompleteTextView.Its working fine but the dropdown text is always white text on white background. this picture explain my problem

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Answer 1

A tricky solution for this is: Add this line setTheme(android.R.style.Theme); before setContentView() in your activity file in which your autocompletetextview is present. Let me know if this works.

Answer 2

I tried setting up the theme before setcontext, tried different resources parameter in arrayAdapter and tried different theme ,but nothing helped.

Then I changed the context from 'this' to 'getApplicationContext' but the problem was persistent.

Finally I changed the context parameter to "getBaseContext()" and the problem was solved.

Answer 3

i got my solution in slecting layout of "select_dialog_singlechoice ArrayAdapter<String > s1= new ArrayAdapter<String> (this,android.R.layout.select_dialog_singlechoice,state);enter image description here

instead of get application context write "this" in ArrayAdapter<>;

try using different layouts u will definately solve your queries

Answer 4

Answer by didldum https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5237

workaround by extending the theme and overriding the 2 styles for the typed text and the suggest text:

1. use an extended theme in your manifest: ... ...

2. create the new theme (res/values/themes.xml) which uses fixed styles: ... @style/AutoCompleteTextViewLight @style/Widget.DropDownItemLight ...

3. create the styles (res/values/styles.xml) which fix the color: ... @android:color/primary_text_light @android:color/primary_text_light

Answer 5

I solved this issue by doing a simple tricky Way,

Just change the Theme of your activity declared in your AndroidManifest.xml as,

 <activity
   android:name=".YourActivity"
            android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
            android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"></activity>

and in the Activity as follows,

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
                (getActivity(), android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, arraylist);

Answer 6

This question might be old but I believe this is very important for me to share. I had been experiencing the same problem as OP but it is because I was using 'getApplicationContext()' in place of 'this'

Wrong

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
                (getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, PLACES);

Correct

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
                (this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, PLACES);