Disable Android AutoCompleteTextView after user selects item from drop down

Question

I'm using Android's AutoCompleteTextView with a CursorAdapter to add autocomplete to an app. In the view's onItemClickListener() (i.e. when the user touches one of the autocompleted drop down items) I retrieve the text and place it in the EditText so that the user can modify it if they need to.

However, when I call setText() on the TextView the autocomplete behavior is triggered and the dropdown shows again. I'd like to only show the dropdown if the user types new text with the keyboard. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Answering my own question after a couple hours of hacking at this: It turns out you should implement your own OnItemClickListener and instead rely on the existing click listener to populate the TextView. I had originally implemented the onItemClickListener because it was using the results of Cursor.toString() to populate the text view. To change the output String, you should implement convertToString(Cursor) in your CursorAdapter. The CharSequence that gets returned will be populated in the text view.

Doing this will also prevent the dropdown from showing up again (since setText() triggers the completion behavior but the default onItemClickListener does not).