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

autoCompleteTextView.setText(valueFromOtherMeans, filter);

     * @param filter If false, no filtering will be performed
     *        as a result of this call.