How can I avoid autocomplete dropdown appearing when text is programmatically set?

Question

I have an AutoCompleteTextView in my layout. I also have an alternative way to select the same items which are present in the AutoCompleteTextView. When the alternative way is

Answer 1

This works fine for me and is less complex:

ListAdapter adapter = autoCompleteTextView.getAdapter();
autoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(null);
autoCompleteTextView.setText("whatever");
autoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(adapter);