So I have an autocompletetextview field in my app which I want the user to enter his email address. Now, to help him type it faster and don\'t make mistakes, I want to suggest h
After several days and looking everywhere for the solution, couldn't find it. I'm posting it because it might help someone.
By trial and error and investigating several sites and guides i could find the solution i was looking for.
This are images of what the solution looks like:
The Textbox, you can type whatever you want, john is an example.
Just typing "@" will give you the list of all possible domains
And you could filter a bit more by starting to type the domain name
The code:
CustomFilterAdapter Class
public class CustomFilterAdapter extends ArrayAdapter {
private final String MY_DEBUG_TAG = "CustomFilterAdapter";
private ArrayList items;
private ArrayList itemsAll;
private ArrayList suggestions;
private int viewResourceId;
public CustomFilterAdapter(Context context, int viewResourceId, ArrayList items) {
super(context, viewResourceId, items);
this.items = items;
this.itemsAll = (ArrayList) items.clone();
this.suggestions = new ArrayList();
this.viewResourceId = viewResourceId;
}
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
View v = convertView;
if (v == null) {
LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
v = vi.inflate(viewResourceId, null);
}
String customer = items.get(position);
if (customer != null) {
TextView customerNameLabel = (TextView)v;
if (customerNameLabel != null) {
customerNameLabel.setText(customer);
}
}
return v;
}
@Override
public Filter getFilter() {
return nameFilter;
}
Filter nameFilter = new Filter() {
public String convertResultToString(Object resultValue) {
String str = (String)resultValue;
return str;
}
@Override
protected FilterResults performFiltering(CharSequence constraint) {
if (constraint != null){
String palabra = constraint.toString();
if(palabra != null && palabra.indexOf("@") != -1) {
String palabra2 = palabra.substring(palabra.indexOf("@"));
String antesArroba;
try{
antesArroba = palabra.substring(0, palabra.indexOf("@"));
}catch (Exception ex)
{
antesArroba ="";
}
suggestions.clear();
for (String customer : itemsAll) {
if(customer.toLowerCase().startsWith(palabra2.toString().toLowerCase())){
suggestions.add(antesArroba+customer);
}
}
FilterResults filterResults = new FilterResults();
filterResults.values = suggestions;
filterResults.count = suggestions.size();
return filterResults;
} else {
return new FilterResults();
}
}else {
return new FilterResults();
}
}
@Override
protected void publishResults(CharSequence constraint, FilterResults results) {
ArrayList filteredList = (ArrayList) results.values;
if(results != null && results.count > 0) {
clear();
for (String c : filteredList) {
add(c);
}
notifyDataSetChanged();
}
}
};
}
On the activity onCreate (you can add here whatever you want)
arraymails = new ArrayList();
arraymails.add("@gmail.com");
arraymails.add("@hotmail.com");
arraymails.add("@yahoo.com");
arraymails.add("@outlook.com");
arraymails.add("@adinet.com.uy");
mEmailView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.register_email);
mEmailView.setText(mEmail);
CustomFilterAdapter adapter = new CustomFilterAdapter(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,arraymails);
And that's all.
Good Luck!