How to limit the number of dropdown items visible at a time on screen in AutoCompleteTextView ?

[Pritam Shah]

I am using AutoCompleteTextView and want to limit the number of dropdown items visible at a time on screen. Currently it fills up the screen but can i limit it to say 2 items with a scroll bar for displaying more.

[Pritam Shah]

Got it .. simply by calling .setDropDownHeight(int height) method of AutoCompleteTextView

[Tim Holloway]

Yes, but can anyone point me to a place where I can make that dropdown list out of items that match a datamodel using an alternative filter, as opposed to the default which starts matching at the beginning of each item's string?

[Pritam Shah]

Tim Holloway wrote:Yes, but can anyone point me to a place where I can make that dropdown list out of items that match a datamodel using an alternative filter, as opposed to the default which starts matching at the beginning of each item's string?

Did a simple search and found this , may help you :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5595790
http://sacoskun.blogspot.com/2008/08/autocompletetextview-with-simpleadapter.html

[Tim Holloway]

Pritam Shah wrote:

Tim Holloway wrote:Yes, but can anyone point me to a place where I can make that dropdown list out of items that match a datamodel using an alternative filter, as opposed to the default which starts matching at the beginning of each item's string?

Did a simple search and found this , may help you :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5595790
http://sacoskun.blogspot.com/2008/08/autocompletetextview-with-simpleadapter.html

Unfortunately, I'd already done the same search back in February and got the same result. It didn't help.