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

I figure out after dig into the AutoCompleteTextView code on android source code:

fun AutoCompleteTextView.selectItem(text: String, position: Int = 0) {
  this.setText(text)
  this.showDropDown()
  this.setSelection(position)
  this.listSelection = position
  this.performCompletion()
}