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

Using the Nilton Vasques solution it can be so:

with(autoComplete) {
    setAdapter(this@YourFragment.adapter)
    setText(itemText)
    showDropDown()
    listSelection = if (itemIndex > 0) itemIndex - 1 else 0 // Because AutoCompleteTextView shows the next row.
    performCompletion()
}

Notice, that it will show a drop-down list, otherwise listSelection won't work. If you call dismissDropDown(), the item won't be selected. If you don't want to show the drop-down list, you can use setOnTouchListener to capture opening the list, but it hardly will help (you should resolve a filtering problem).

setOnTouchListener { _, event ->
    if (event.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        showDropDown()
        listSelection = if (itemIndex > 0) itemIndex - 1 else 0
        performCompletion()
        requestFocus()
    }
    false
}