AutoCompleteTextView with server response

Question

How to create AutoCompleteTextView which will fetch results from remote server?

As I understand I need to implement ArrayAdapter, which must make async requests to server.

Answer 1

AutoCompleteTextView i not meant for this kind of action, i once thought like you and made very bad code with that...

if your auto complete list comes from he network based on every character you input, you better off create a Vertical Linear Layout which contains an EditText and a listView, and create a connection pool.

for every key type check if it was typed in 100-130 ms to make sure the user is likely to wait for a response and issue a request, on any new request, remove or invalidate the last request u've sent.

one response safely arrives , update your list adapter.

works smoothly for me.

AutoCompleteTextview uses a pre made list. it uses AsyncTask itself so i'ts pretty bad to use one yourself to update the list it uses...