Auto Complete Text suggestion for edittextview, example for single and multiple items suggestions

If you want to get suggestions , when you type in an editable text field , you can do this via AutoCompleteTextView. It provides suggestions automatically when the user is typing. The list of suggestions is displayed in a drop down menu from which the user can choose an item to replace the content of the edit box with.

getAdapter() This method returns a filterable list adapter used for auto completion

This method returns optional hint text displayed at the bottom of the the matching list

This method returns returns the id for the view that the auto-complete drop down list is anchored to.

This method returns the position of the dropdown view selection, if there is one

This method indicates whether the popup menu is showing

This method sets text except that it can disable filtering

This method displays the drop down on screen.