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

The problem is that you are setting a text and the AutoCompleteTextView is only showing words that match with that text. A non elegant way of solving this is to set an high threshold (at least the max length of the names of the cities) to force Android to show you all the values of your list (this threshold is the number of characters that the field must have to search similarities).

Answer 2

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
}

Answer 3

autoComplete.setListSelection(position);