In Xamarin, how can I develop an input box that when the user inputs text, a dropdown list/menu appears with items that the user can click on?
What type of input control do I need, and how do I code the dropdown list?
Thanks in advance
You have to put the combination of EditText and ListView to perform this. Refer this Link Android Hive for more details.
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I want to show suggestions not only as starting character but also a containing character... means 's' suggestions should be like tags,pas,also, and so on.
#sagar jagdale :
You can use Android AutoCompleteTextView.
It provides suggestions automatically when the user is typing. The list of suggestions is displayed in a drop down menu from which the user can choose an item to replace the content of the edit box with.
Check Demo Android AutoCompleteTextView Example
how can I create in my android app a button that will automatically put the search suggestion into the search bar, so that when you click on the button, the search bar will be automatically filled with the corresponding text?
An example is shown in the image below.
Have you looked into AutoCompleteTextView? From the docs:
The list of suggestions is displayed in a drop down menu from which the user can choose an item to replace the content of the edit box with.
EDIT: If you're using a SearchView, the process is much different. Assuming you've already set up the SearchView, you have to provide search suggestions that the system will display as the user types. These can be recent query suggestions or custom search suggestions.
There are several steps involved, but in a nutshell, you will have to create a Content Provider that takes a search query and serves up a list of suggestions (details here). Once you've done this, you can configure your search bar to fill itself in when the user selects a suggestion (details here).
Hope this helps!
The solution is to call setQueryRefinementEnabled(true) on the SearchView object
Even a Snippet of an android code to Integrate Google Search into an Edit text will be really useful, according to my requirement i don't want the google search data or whatever but only the dropdown so that it will b easier for people to type and don't have to waste time :)
You can see about the componenent is AutoCompleteTextView
An editable text view that shows completion suggestions automatically while the user is typing. The list of suggestions is displayed in a drop down menu from which the user can choose an item to replace the content of the edit box with.
For my app, I'm trying to get the autocomplete suggestion box to pop up for multiple inputs in the textbox.
For example, let's say the input is "Alice, Bob, Charlie". The user begins to type in "Alice" and selects the name from the suggestions, updating the text view with "Alice, ". Then the user types in "Bob" and the suggestion box pops up again, so the user clicks the name and the text view updates to "Alice, Bob, ". And so on.
The default AutoCompleteTextView in Android doesn't seem to support that kind of functionality of having the suggestions box pop up for each input, only for the first input. How do I go about having the suggestion box pop up for each input?
OK, I figured it out, had to use MultiAutoCompleteTextView instead of AutoCompleteTextView.
I am a newbie to android and trying to implement Quick Search Dialog for my application.
Actually, in my application I have an activity
1. where I have a Edit text and Search Button next to it
2. Add Button and a Employee Table below it.
Whenever the user enters the search string in the EditText and clicks the Search button , I am calling the Quick Search Box and luckily it opens with the Search and here the user can see the given search query.
Till this, every thing works perfectly as I want.
But what I want is:
On-Clicking the Search button,the search query is displayed in the QSB and what I want is to display custom suggestions based on the search query and selecting the valid data , it should be saved in the Employee table.
Now I want Custom Suggestions to be displayed in a list view based on the search query.
How do I proceed to achieve this.
Please provide links for Quick search Box custom suggestions also.
Thanks and Regards,
Fazal Ahamed B
This is described here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/adding-custom-suggestions.html