Question

I tried auto complete in android, but was facing a peculiar problem with it. Autocomplete shows suggestions only after you type 2 characters and not after a single character. Is that how it is supposed to be ?

How do I change autocomplete such that it starts after a single character rather than 2 characters?

Answer 1

either by setting the threshold in the xml (android:completionThreshold). for example:

 <AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/edit"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:completionThreshold="1"/>

or programmatically by calling the setThreshold() method