Force the AutoCompleteTextView show "fixed" items on focus/touch or when text is empty

Question

I have an ACTV which is used to show geo-suggests (via GeoCoder etc.). It's working like charm.

Now I want to force the ACTV to show the history - previously found geolocations - as a drop down when the user touches the empty ACTV or the text size reduces to 0. In this case the ACTV should work like a simple spinner. When the user changes the text, the ACTV should fire off the geocode-search.

What's the easiest way to achieve that?

TIA

Answer 1

You could add an OnTouchListener on the AutoCompleteTextView, invoking:

autoCompleteTextView.showDropDown();

For focus, you could do something similar using an OnFocusChangeListener, but first check that the popup isn't already showing through isPopupShowing().