How to dynamically add suggestions to autocompletetextview with preserving character status

Question

Problem Description:

I am facing some problem with AutoCompleteTextView where I have to show suggestions after each keypress. Thing is that, list of

Answer 1

one of the easiest way of doing that (put the code in onCreate):

EDIT: addied wikipedia free opensearch (if https://en.wikipedia.org doesn't work try http://en.wikipedia.org)

    AutoCompleteTextView actv = new AutoCompleteTextView(this);
    actv.setThreshold(1);
    String[] from = { "name", "description" };
    int[] to = { android.R.id.text1, android.R.id.text2 };
    SimpleCursorAdapter a = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_2, null, from, to, 0);
    a.setStringConversionColumn(1);
    FilterQueryProvider provider = new FilterQueryProvider() {
        @Override
        public Cursor runQuery(CharSequence constraint) {
            // run in the background thread
            Log.d(TAG, "runQuery constraint: " + constraint);
            if (constraint == null) {
                return null;
            }
            String[] columnNames = { BaseColumns._ID, "name", "description" };
            MatrixCursor c = new MatrixCursor(columnNames);
            try {
                String urlString = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?" +
                        "action=opensearch&search=" + constraint +
                        "&limit=8&namespace=0&format=json";
                URL url = new URL(urlString);
                InputStream stream = url.openStream();
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
                String jsonStr = reader.readLine();
                // output ["query", ["n0", "n1", ..], ["d0", "d1", ..]]
                JSONArray json = new JSONArray(jsonStr);
                JSONArray names = json.getJSONArray(1);
                JSONArray descriptions = json.getJSONArray(2);
                for (int i = 0; i < names.length(); i++) {
                    c.newRow().add(i).add(names.getString(i)).add(descriptions.getString(i));
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return c;
        }
    };
    a.setFilterQueryProvider(provider);
    actv.setAdapter(a);
    setContentView(actv, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

Answer 2

You have impletent the custome filter in the child class of ArrayAdapter, there in perform filter method you have to do network call and get data from server. You can set this data in your main arraylist.