Dynamically update autocomplete box in Android?

Question

I will like to know if we can continuously call some service for fetching results and displaying in Autocomplete list.

I have one screen with the text box and when u

Answer 1

Write a custom SimpleCursorAdapter. Now associate this adapter to your EditText. Here is the code to construct a Cursor object and return it:

public class ValueCursorAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter implements Filterable
{

    ...
 // overrise the newView() to associate mCursor[1] and mCursor[2] to relevant views within
    ...

    @Override
    public Cursor runQueryOnBackgroundThread(CharSequence constraint)
    {
        MatrixCursor mCursor = new MatrixCursor(new String[] { "_id", "uri", "label" });
        .. // result = ??
            while (result.hasNext())
            {
                mCursor.addRow(new Object[] { count, "uri", "title"});
                count++;
            }
        return mCursor;
    }
}

Here is an example for Customizing Cursor Adapter. You might need to customize it to fit your requirements.