How can I do something, 0.5 second after text changed in my EditText?

Question

I am filtering my list using an EditText. I want to filter the list 0.5 second after user has finished typing in EditText. I used the afterTextChanged

Answer 1

You can also use TextWatcher interface and create your custom class that implements it to re-use many times your CustomTextWatcher and also you can pass views or whatever you might need to its constructor:

public abstract class CustomTextWatcher implements TextWatcher { //Notice abstract class so we leave abstract method textWasChanged() for implementing class to define it

    private final TextView myTextView; //Remember EditText is a TextView so this works for EditText also


    public AddressTextWatcher(TextView tView) { //Notice I'm passing a view at the constructor, but you can pass other variables or whatever you need
        myTextView= tView;

    }

    private Timer timer = new Timer();
    private final int DELAY = 500; //milliseconds of delay for timer

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(final Editable s) {
        timer.cancel();
        timer = new Timer();

        timer.schedule(

                new TimerTask() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        textWasChanged();
                    }
                },
                DELAY

        );
    }

    public abstract void textWasChanged(); //Notice abstract method to leave implementation to implementing class

}

Now in your activity you can use it like this:

    myEditText.addTextChangedListener(new CustomTextWatcher(myEditText) { //Notice I'm passing in constructor of CustomTextWatcher myEditText I needed to use
        @Override
        public void textWasChanged() {
            //doSomething(); this is method inside your activity
        }
    });