How to get text from AutoCompleteTextView?

Question

I have an AutoCompleteTextView in my app which works. I have successfully created an onClickItemListener. The question is how to grab the text the

Answer 1

There is also a way to get item outside the onItemClick:

int index = tv.getListSelection();
if (index != ListView.INVALID_POSITION) {
    Object item = tv.getAdapter().getItem(index);
}

beware that int getListSelection() may return ListView.INVALID_POSITION if there is no dropdown or if there is no selection.

Answer 2

Easiest of all

For Getting text of the selected suggestion in AutoCompleteTextView use this

      autoCompleteTextView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            Log.e("========>>", autoCompleteTextView.getText().toString());
        }
    });

Answer 3

To get the text of the displayed item selected by the user

public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
    String selectedItemText = arg0.getItemAtPosition(arg2);
    Log.i("myTag", "SELECTED TEXT WAS["+selectedItemText+"]);
}

Following best practices, please use some form of descriptive nomenclature for your variables, your code will make more sense:

public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterViewIn, View viewIn, int selectedItemIndexIn, long id)