Question

I’m looking for an Android widget that provides the following functionality: I want to get text from the user, and the user can either select from a list of choices or enter their own text.

I’m having a hard time coming up with the right keywords for google. Custom ListView?

Answer 1

If you are looking for the “list of choices” to fold down from the text entry area, then AutoCompleteTextView is the widget that you want.

Here is a sample project demonstrating its use. You basically hand it an Adapter for the stuff to go in the list via setAdapter(), and use the android:completionThreshold attribute to indicate how many characters the user must type in before Android will attempt to find matches and display them.