AutoCompleteTextView item selection programmatically

Question

I have an autocomplete text view that is filled with cities from an sqlite database that calls an async task on item click, recently I added an option to detect my location usin

Answer 1

A solution were you don't need to change your API level.

automCompleteTextView.setAdapter(adapter);        
// set default selection, filtering is active so all items is not visible in drop-down menu
automCompleteTextView.setText(automCompleteTextView.getAdapter().getItem(0).toString());
// change filtering for the adapter so all items can be visible in drop-down menu
adapter.getFilter().filter(null);

one-liner for the same job but requires higher API level

automCompleteTextView.setText(automCompleteTextView.getAdapter().getItem(0).toString(), false);