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(Sorry maybe the Title is sensless)

How can I program, in Android, like what we obtain when we search for a contact in our phone contact list, I mean for example just when we write jac in the serch EditView we have under it a list like

Jac k Andrew (phone number)

Jac k Bill (phone number)

Jac ob Lym (phone number)

So in my case I have an array of String[] myWords and an EditView myEditView I want when writing in myEditeView it proposes for me the words from myWords which start or contain the written caracters in myEditeView.

Thanks.

RiadSaadi
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For that I would look into the AutoCompleteTextview.

Look at this

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AutoCompleteTextView.html

JoaoFilipeClementeMartins
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  • thanks @JoaoFilipeClementeMartin, please when it do `ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, COUNTRIES);` what is `R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line` – RiadSaadi Dec 03 '13 at 15:29
  • It is an android predefined element that represents one line in the array. – JoaoFilipeClementeMartins Dec 03 '13 at 15:37