Android Development: How to Add an Auto Complete View

This tutorial shows you how to add a Country text field with an auto complete feature. Note, the default threshhold for autocomplete is 2, so you will need to enter two characters before autocomplete will recognize your input. You can download the below project.

1. AutoCompleteTextView is an implementation of the EditText widget that will provide auto-complete suggestions as the user types. The suggestions are extracted from a collection of strings.
2. Create a project
3. Open Main.xml and add an AutoCompleteTextView
4. Build project to update the R.java file
5. Add this code in OnCreate:

ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this,
android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, COUNTRIES);
final AutoCompleteTextView autoCompleteTextView = (AutoCompleteTextView)
findViewById(R.id.AutoCompleteTextView01);
autoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(adapter);

6. Add this code after OnCreate():

static final String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] {
"Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria", "American Samoa", "Andorra",
"Angola", "Anguilla", "Antarctica", "Antigua and Barbuda", "Argentina",
"Armenia", "Aruba", "Australia", "Austria", "Azerbaijan",
"Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Barbados", "Belarus", "Belgium",
"Belize", "Benin", "Bermuda", "Bhutan", "Bolivia",
"Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Botswana", "Bouvet Island", "Brazil", "British Indian Ocean Territory",
"British Virgin Islands", "Brunei", "Bulgaria", "Burkina Faso", "Burundi",
"Cote d'Ivoire", "Cambodia", "Cameroon", "Canada", "Cape Verde",
"Cayman Islands", "Central African Republic", "Chad", "Chile", "China",
"Christmas Island", "Cocos (Keeling) Islands", "Colombia", "Comoros", "Congo",
"Cook Islands", "Costa Rica", "Croatia", "Cuba", "Cyprus", "Czech Republic",
"Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Denmark", "Djibouti", "Dominica", "Dominican Republic",
"East Timor", "Ecuador", "Egypt", "El Salvador", "Equatorial Guinea", "Eritrea",
"Estonia", "Ethiopia", "Faeroe Islands", "Falkland Islands", "Fiji", "Finland",
"Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", "France", "French Guiana", "French Polynesia",
"French Southern Territories", "Gabon", "Georgia", "Germany", "Ghana", "Gibraltar",
"Greece", "Greenland", "Grenada", "Guadeloupe", "Guam", "Guatemala", "Guinea", "Guinea-Bissau",
"Guyana", "Haiti", "Heard Island and McDonald Islands", "Honduras", "Hong Kong", "Hungary",
"Iceland", "India", "Indonesia", "Iran", "Iraq", "Ireland", "Israel", "Italy", "Jamaica",
"Japan", "Jordan", "Kazakhstan", "Kenya", "Kiribati", "Kuwait", "Kyrgyzstan", "Laos",
"Latvia", "Lebanon", "Lesotho", "Liberia", "Libya", "Liechtenstein", "Lithuania", "Luxembourg",
"Macau", "Madagascar", "Malawi", "Malaysia", "Maldives", "Mali", "Malta", "Marshall Islands",
"Martinique", "Mauritania", "Mauritius", "Mayotte", "Mexico", "Micronesia", "Moldova",
"Monaco", "Mongolia", "Montserrat", "Morocco", "Mozambique", "Myanmar", "Namibia",
"Nauru", "Nepal", "Netherlands", "Netherlands Antilles", "New Caledonia", "New Zealand",
"Nicaragua", "Niger", "Nigeria", "Niue", "Norfolk Island", "North Korea", "Northern Marianas",
"Norway", "Oman", "Pakistan", "Palau", "Panama", "Papua New Guinea", "Paraguay", "Peru",
"Philippines", "Pitcairn Islands", "Poland", "Portugal", "Puerto Rico", "Qatar",
"Reunion", "Romania", "Russia", "Rwanda", "Sqo Tome and Principe", "Saint Helena",
"Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Saint Lucia", "Saint Pierre and Miquelon",
"Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "Samoa", "San Marino", "Saudi Arabia", "Senegal",
"Seychelles", "Sierra Leone", "Singapore", "Slovakia", "Slovenia", "Solomon Islands",
"Somalia", "South Africa", "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands", "South Korea",
"Spain", "Sri Lanka", "Sudan", "Suriname", "Svalbard and Jan Mayen", "Swaziland", "Sweden",
"Switzerland", "Syria", "Taiwan", "Tajikistan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "The Bahamas",
"The Gambia", "Togo", "Tokelau", "Tonga", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Tunisia", "Turkey",
"Turkmenistan", "Turks and Caicos Islands", "Tuvalu", "Virgin Islands", "Uganda",
"Ukraine", "United Arab Emirates", "United Kingdom",
"United States", "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "Uruguay", "Uzbekistan",
"Vanuatu", "Vatican City", "Venezuela", "Vietnam", "Wallis and Futuna", "Western Sahara",
"Yemen", "Yugoslavia", "Zambia", "Zimbabwe"
};