Difference between MultiAutoCompleteTextView and AutoCompleteTextView

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Pankaj Kumar picture Pankaj Kumar · Feb 3, 2011 · Viewed 29.1k times · Source

Can someone explain the difference between MultiAutoCompleteTextView and AutoCompleteTextView?

Answer

Eric picture Eric · Mar 2, 2011

AutocompleteTextView only offers suggestions about the whole sentence and MultiAutoCompleteTextView offers suggestions for every token in the sentence. You can specify what is the delimiter between tokens.

String[] words=new String[] {
     "word1", "word2", "word3", "word4", "word5"
 };

MultiAutoCompleteTextView macTv = (MultiAutoCompleteTextView) this.findViewById(R.id.mac_tv);
ArrayAdapter<String> aaStr = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.dropdown_item,words);
macTv.setAdapter(aaStr);
macTv.setTokenizer(new MultiAutoCompleteTextView.CommaTokenizer() );

and:

<MultiAutoCompleteTextView 
android:id="@+id/mac_tv"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:completionThreshold="1"
/>

with this example the suggestion comes after every comma.

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