You must must provide a MultiAutoCompleteTextView.Tokenizer to distinguish the various substrings.
It can be comapred with "Example of AutoCompleteTextView".
main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello"
/>
<MultiAutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/multiautocompletetextview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:completionThreshold="1"
/>
</LinearLayout>
java main code
package com.exercise.AndroidMultiAutoCompleteTextView;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.MultiAutoCompleteTextView;
public class AndroidMultiAutoCompleteTextView extends Activity {
MultiAutoCompleteTextView myMultiAutoCompleteTextView;
String item[]={
"January", "February", "March", "April",
"May", "June", "July", "August",
"September", "October", "November", "December"
};
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
MultiAutoCompleteTextView myMultiAutoCompleteTextView
= (MultiAutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(
R.id.multiautocompletetextview);
myMultiAutoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(
new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, item));
myMultiAutoCompleteTextView.setTokenizer(
new MultiAutoCompleteTextView.CommaTokenizer());
}
}