It took a while to put together a solution for this, but have found this is the easiest way to get it to work in the way that you describe. There could be better ways to do this, but since you haven’t posted your activity code I will have to improvise and assume you have … Read more
one of the easiest way of doing that (put the code in onCreate): EDIT: addied wikipedia free opensearch (if https://en.wikipedia.org doesn’t work try http://en.wikipedia.org) AutoCompleteTextView actv = new AutoCompleteTextView(this); actv.setThreshold(1); String[] from = { “name”, “description” }; int[] to = { android.R.id.text1, android.R.id.text2 }; SimpleCursorAdapter a = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_2, null, from, to, 0); a.setStringConversionColumn(1); … Read more