Question

I’m using an AutoCompleteTextView in my Android application, which is loaded with items like this one:

“Smoky chinchilla rat – Abrocoma cinerea”

Which are common names and scientific names of many animals…

Now, if I type “smo” is fine, the item above is shown nicely, the problem starts when I type things like “abrocoma ” (note the space)… the instant I type the space after “abrocoma” the selections dissapear, as if the sequence “abrocoma ” doesn’t appear in the line…

The above is only true for spaces after the first word… If I type “smoky ” is fine…

More, if I type “smoky chinchilla rat – abrocoma ” it still shows the dropdown just fine, the only problem is when I start with any word but the first.

I don’t know if this is an error of the AutoCompleteTextView or my code.

Any direction is appreciated.

Greetings

Answer 1

Have you taken a look at this post? The user was having a similar issue, and he wrote is own derivation:

I just ran into a similar problem and wrote a simple multi word
derivation. It defaults to a “,” separator but you can set it whatever
you like using the “setSeparator” method.