how to combine edit text with spinner

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I am writing simple login activity. I have login edit text and password edit text. I am kepping login and pasword via sharedpreferences. I want to make login field to rember previous logins (eg "aaa" and "aab") so when you type in edit text it give you some options and you can choose them to outo complite it. How it can be done?

use auto complete textview. http://stackoverflow.com/a/15877582/1168654 — Dhaval Parmar, Jun 04 '13 at 10:35
you answer was first with link to proper example, i'd like to rate your comment as solution, please post it as answer — Yarh, Jun 04 '13 at 16:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 04 '16 at 01:13

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You should use AutoCompleteTextView instead of simple EditText check dev link http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AutoCompleteTextView.html

also check this link for detail http://www.javatpoint.com/android-autocompletetextview-example

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answered Jun 04 '13 at 10:55

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 10:43

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You can use AutoCompleteTextView for the login field, and use a suitable adapter to display the values. If you are remembering the previous login IDs, then, you can store them in SQLite DB and use CursorAdapter to populate the auto complete text view.

answered Jun 04 '13 at 10:43

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how to combine edit text with spinner

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