selecting contact from autocomplete textview

Question

i want to select the contact using autocomplete textview for sending sms. I have almost achieved what i want, but for one minute problem as you can see in the image. How can

Answer 1

The output you currently have seems to be the standard output of HashMap.toString method. So, you should make your own implementation of HashMap and override toString method.

Answer 2

Add a onItemClickListener for the AutoCompleteTextView instead of having it as a seperate function.

 mTxtPhoneNo.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> av, View arg1, int index,
                long arg3) {
            Map<String, String> map = (Map<String, String>) av.getItemAtPosition(index);

            String name  = map.get("Name");
            String number = map.get("Phone");
            mTxtPhoneNo.setText(""+name+"<"+number+">");

        }



    });

or implement OnItemClickListener for your activity and set

mTxtPhoneNo.setOnItemClickListener(this);

Answer 3

With an AutoCompeleteTextView its can be useful just to do as what @user936414 said, but it can makes problem if you have biggest app, even more with an multiAutoCompeleteTextView so it s recommended to overide toString methode by creating a "custom" HashMap like that :

public class ContactMap extends HashMap<String, String> {

/*
 * (non-Javadoc)
 * 
 * @see java.util.AbstractMap#toString()
 */
@Override
public String toString() {
    if (isEmpty()) {
        return "{}";
    }

    StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(size() * 28);
    Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> it = entrySet().iterator();
    while (it.hasNext()) {
        Map.Entry<String, String> entry = it.next();
        Object key = entry.getKey();

        if (key == "Name") {
            Object value = entry.getValue();
            buffer.append(value);
        } else {
            if (key == "Phone")
                buffer.append("<");
            Object value = entry.getValue();
            if (value != this) {
                buffer.append(value);
            } else {
                buffer.append("(this Map)");
            }
            if (key == "Phone")
                buffer.append(">");

        }
    }

    return buffer.toString();
}

}

and use it like this

                    // Using our custom HashMap
                    ContactMap NamePhoneType = new ContactMap();