Example of MultiAutoCompleteTextView

MultiAutoCompleteTextView is an editable text view, extending AutoCompleteTextView, that can show completion suggestions for the substring of the text where the user is typing instead of necessarily for the entire thing.

You must must provide a MultiAutoCompleteTextView.Tokenizer to distinguish the various substrings.

Example of MultiAutoCompleteTextView

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());


}
}