AutoCompleteTextView dropdown list text highlighted according to search text

Question

I have implemented AutoCompleteTextView for the search field in my application.

I want to highlight the text entered in the AutoCompleteTextView(the search text field) to be highlighted in the drop down list. How can I do this?.

Answer 1

So, In your getView method add the following

Spannable spanText = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable(textString);
spanText.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(0xFFFFFF00), startIndex, endIndex, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
myTv.setText(spanText);