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Niaz Ahsan
Niaz Ahsan

Reputation: 361

Set dropdown above for Android Auto complete textview

I want to set the dropdown of an autoCompleteTextView above the input field. Is there any attribute or method around to set the dropdown always on top ?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5894

Answers (2)

prashant17
prashant17

Reputation: 1550

Try android:dropDownAnchor. Learn more about this AutoCompleteTextView

Edit

Try setting android:dropDownAnchoralong with android:dropDownHeight,android:dropDownHorizontalOffset, android:dropDownVerticalOffset to get desired position 

<AutoCompleteTextView
    android:id="@+id/autoCompleteTextView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:dropDownAnchor="@id/textView"
    android:dropDownHeight="100dp"
    android:dropDownWidth="200dp"
    android:text=""
    android:dropDownVerticalOffset="120dp"
    android:dropDownHorizontalOffset="0dp"/>

Upvotes: 3

sanjay maharjan
sanjay maharjan

Reputation: 82

In your layout

<AutoCompleteTextView
        android:id="@+id/autoCompleteTextView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_marginLeft="36dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="17dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:text="">

Java Code

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
                (this, android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, fruits);
        //Getting the instance of AutoCompleteTextView
        AutoCompleteTextView actv = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autoCompleteTextView);
        actv.setThreshold(1);//will start working from first character
        actv.setAdapter(adapter);//setting the adapter data into the

Upvotes: -1

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