Android Tutorial

Android Tutorial 175

Using AutoCompleteTextView (left) and

MultiAutoCompleteTextView (right).

Both of the auto-complete text editors use an adapter to get the

list of text that they use to provide completions to the user. This

example shows how to provide an AutoComplete TextView for the

user that can help them type some of the basic colors from an

array in the code:

final String[] COLORS = {
“red”, “green”, “orange”, “blue”, “purple”,
“black”, “yellow”, “cyan”, “magenta” };
ArrayAdapter adapter =
new ArrayAdapter(this,
android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,
COLORS);
AutoCompleteTextView text = (AutoCompleteTextView)