Dynamically updating an AutoCompleteTextView adapter

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I didn’t have any luck using adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() when dynamically adding and changing the data in the adapter. In my situation, I was hitting an external api asynchronously and getting a list of completion data periodically.

This code clears the adapter, and adds the new data as you’d expect. However, I had to call the getFilter().Filter method to force the data to show. Also, I had to explicitly filter based on the current text in the AutocompleteTextView because my api call was asynchronous.

adapter.clear();
for (Map<String, String> map : completions) {
     adapter.add(map.get("name"));
}

//Force the adapter to filter itself, necessary to show new data.
//Filter based on the current text because api call is asynchronous. 
adapter.getFilter().filter(autocompleteTextView.getText(), null);

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