I've done a fair bit of Google-fu but I cannot figure out what's wrong. Filtering works, the drop down list appears. But the AutoCompleteTextView doesn't populate with the selected item! Can anyone help?
I set a custom adapter to my AutoCompleteTextView that shows a custom layout.
actv = (AutoCompleteTextView) root.findViewById(R.id.actv);
actv.setAdapter(new MyCustomAutoCompleteAdapter(getActivity()));
Here are the important parts MyCustomAutoCompleteAdapter
code:
public class MyCustomAutoCompleteAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String>
implements Filterable {
Context mContext;
private ArrayList<String> resultList = new ArrayList<>();
public MyCustomAutoCompleteAdapter(Context context) {
// is this the correct way to super?
super(context, R.layout.my_custom_layout);
mContext = context;
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
...
return convertView;
}
@Override
public int getCount() {
return resultList.size();
}
@Override
public String getItem(int index) {
return resultList.get(index);
}
@Override
public Filter getFilter() {
Filter filter = new Filter() {
@Override
protected FilterResults performFiltering(CharSequence constraint) {
FilterResults filterResults = new FilterResults();
if (constraint != null) {
// Retrieve the autocomplete results.
resultList = doPlacesSearchQuery(constraint.toString());
// Assign the data to the FilterResults
filterResults.values = resultList;
filterResults.count = resultList.size();
}
return filterResults;
}
@Override
protected void publishResults(CharSequence constraint, FilterResults results) {
if (results != null && results.count > 0) {
notifyDataSetChanged();
}
else {
notifyDataSetInvalidated();
}
}};
return filter;
}
private ArrayList<String> doPlacesSearchQuery(String query) {
ArrayList<String> retList = new ArrayList<>();
... // do my API call here
return retList;
}
}
I found my answer; I was indeed using the wrong super constructor.