How to get text from AutoCompleteTextView?

Question

I have an AutoCompleteTextView in my app which works. I have successfully created an onClickItemListener. The question is how to grab the text the user selected.

And this is the thing: I have an ArrayList with words being passed to the Adapter to search for suggestions. As the user types a word the suggestions list gets shorter (in rows on the UI side) so when i want to get the word from the ArrayList at the index the user selected i get the wrong word because the indexes doesn't match.

How can I get the text (String) the user chose without having to mess with the index?

Here's my code:

public class AutocompleteActivity extends BaseActivity {      private DBManager m_db;      @Override     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.autocomplete);          m_db = new DBManager(this);         final ArrayList<String> words = m_db.selectAllWords();         ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.listitem, words);          AutoCompleteTextView tv = (AutoCompleteTextView)findViewById(R.id.autocomplete);         tv.setThreshold(1);         tv.setAdapter(adapter);          tv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {              public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {                 Log.i("SELECTED TEXT WAS------->", words.get(arg2));             }         });     } } 

Answer 1

Yeah... unfortunately the name of the parameters on the onItemClick method you must implement are not so self-descriptive but here is an example with the names of what they are:

autoCompleteTextView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {     public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long rowId) {         String selection = (String)parent.getItemAtPosition(position);         //TODO Do something with the selected text     } }); 

• parent The AdapterView where the click happened.
• view The view within the AdapterView that was clicked (this will be a view provided by the adapter)
• position The position of the view in the adapter
• id The row id of the item that was clicked.

For more info see: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AdapterView.OnItemClickListener.html

Answer 2

arg0 being your AdapterView and arg2 the position.

Have you tried:

arg0.getItemAtPosition(arg2);