Android Trick - AutoCompleteTextView & MultiAutoCompleteTextView & Spannable & EditText
Story came from I tried implement an EditText View which supports "Mention feature" like Facebook and Twitter. After user type in "@" symbol there is a dropdown list come out and let user select some item to replace that word started with "@". The first I try to use EditText and popup window to customize this component. Which I need to listen EditText text change and using popup window to show the dropdown list with suggestions. But when I tried to handle the focus between EditText and PopupWindow I gave up this way . Could not find better solution for that means when EditText get focus all the time my dropdown list can not be clicked . Because popup window needs focusable to make views inside can be clicked. But if I give popup window focus user can not type in anymore. Then I realized how stupid I worked. There supposed to be a solution from Android . Coz Contacts app support autocompletion. Then I found AutoCompleteTextView . Followed docume...