How to get Autocomplete results when any number/text is entered and not just the first one in android

Question

In the AutocompleteTextView, the results will only show if the first number/text entered, matches with the firt number/text in the list provided.

For example consider a list:

 String[] items = new String[]{"021023032", "024345244", "024566545245"};

The Autotext results will show up only if the first number entered is 0 or else it won't. I got a use case where if the user enters 0 or any other number the results should show. I tried 'showDropDown()' using textwatcher, setting threshold but still it only shows if the first number is 0. Any suggestions to try?

[This](https://stackoverflow.com/a/35067934/5447822) might help — Hussain, Dec 10 '20 at 11:44
I followed this, working pretty amazing: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37298258/14401306 — krish, Dec 17 '20 at 11:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '20 at 11:33

the defualt autocomplete text view works in this only way, but you can create your own widget, it's very simple you need to extend a view from text view and create a regex and a handler, in text watcher handle if the text matches with your regex or not and if yes show dropdown.

How to get Autocomplete results when any number/text is entered and not just the first one in android

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