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Style on AutoCompleteTextView dropdown

I've been trying to set the style of my dropdown for the autocomplete for some time now. At the moment it looks like this:

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The green area is the dropdown with alternatives. I would like to make that box smaller, since it does'nt look very good at the moment with my rounded rectangle.

How do i achieve this? So far I have only been able to adjust each line in it..

Solution

  • Found out myself 5 minutes after putting the question here. I'll keep the question up for someone who might come across this.

    You can simply put dropdown attributes when you create the autocompletetextview.

    android:dropDownWidth="yourWidth"

    Coudln't find any xml attribute for setting dropdown backgroundresource but the programmatical way works fine:

    autoTextView.setDropDownBackgroundDrawable(this.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.rounded_rectangle));

    This way you can define how the dropdown should look with your own drawable. If you would want to change it with xml from resource, this is an approach:

    android:completionHintView="@layout/your_layout"