Android: Prevent AutoCompleteTextView.setText() from showing dropdown

If you're going to use AutoCompleteTextView.setText(), you'll soon notice that the standard dropdown behaviour will annoy you since it shows the dropdown after the call is finished.

To prevent it, you'll have to:

• remove the adapter
• set the text
• set the adapter back

Since there is no adapter information to autocomplete, there will be no dropdown.

Here's some working sample code.

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01.tvSuburbs.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

02.  @Override

03.  public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

04.    Suburb s = (Suburb) tvSuburbs.getAdapter().getItem(position);

05.    ArrayAdapter<Suburb> a = (ArrayAdapter<Suburb>) tvSuburbs.getAdapter();

06.    tvSuburbs.setAdapter(null); // Remove the adapter so we don't get a dropdown when

07.    tvSuburbs.setText(s.name); // text is set programmatically.

08.    tvSuburbs.setAdapter(a); // Restore adapter

09.  }

10.});

And there you have it!

Sources

• How to disable AutoCompleteTextView's drop-down from showing up?