Android: Using item selected in AutoCompleteTextView to populate another field

Question

I am trying to build an app where the names of employees are stored in a table. On a particular page, the user can enter the name of an employee in an autocompletetextview and s

Answer 1

You can create a custom Adapter for your AutoCompleteTextView which has all the info, say you have a class People(name, department, designation).

Something like

autoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(new CustomAdapter(getBaseContext(),  android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, "a list of all your people"))