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

My solution (but I don't like it, there must be something better):

autoCompleteTextView.setText(valueFromAlternativeSource);
autoCompleteTextView.setDropDownHeight(0);

autoCompleteTextView.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener(){

   @Override
   public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
       autoCompleteTextView.setDropDownHeight(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
   }
}