Though it's not popped up here for some reason Craig Dunn answered my question and in only a matter of an hour I've got a really good working solution
the example you pointed to Jonathan is the standard autocomplete - as far as I can see it only searches in the adapter in an ordinal way - i.e Ar - finds Arizona but sometimes you want to search the adapter in a way which finds any string containing "ar" so the result might be Arizona Karachi (strange bedfellows I know :-) To do this you need to customise the adapter I was trying to customise some example I found in Java but as always got stuck on converting the java Craig has already done it and posted it on GitHub Its Xamarin-Monodroid-samples-0cd9b3e The sub project called content controls You have to add the custom adapter - Here are Craig's links https://github.com/xamarin/monodroid-samples/tree/master/ContentControls And add the .cs at https://gist.github.com/2433227 but I found it easier to create a new project and just add the custom adapter because this git hub example also deals with mapping and you can't compile it unless you have a googlemaps api key Just create simple new project and a form with autocompletetextview - populate a string array and pass it to this code Note that the custom adapter takes a simple string[] array ///////////THANKS craig -absolutely cracking solution hope this helps someone else John M using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using Android.App; using Android.Views; using Android.Widget; namespace ACBContains { public class AutoAdapter : ArrayAdapter, IFilterable { LayoutInflater inflater; Filter filter; Activity context; public string[] AllItems; public string[] MatchItems; public AutoAdapter (Activity context, int txtViewResourceId, string[] items) : base(context, txtViewResourceId, items) { inflater = context.LayoutInflater; filter = new SuggestionsFilter(this); AllItems = items; MatchItems = items; } public override int Count { get { return MatchItems.Length; } } public override Java.Lang.Object GetItem (int position) { return MatchItems[position]; } public override View GetView (int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { View view = convertView; if (view == null) view = inflater.Inflate(Android.Resource.Layout.SimpleDropDownItem1Line, null); view.FindViewById<TextView>(Android.Resource.Id.Text1).Text = MatchItems[position]; return view; } public override Filter Filter { get { return filter; } } class SuggestionsFilter : Filter { AutoAdapter a; public SuggestionsFilter (AutoAdapter adapter) : base() { a = adapter; } protected override Filter.FilterResults PerformFiltering (Java.Lang.ICharSequence constraint) { FilterResults results = new FilterResults(); if (constraint != null) { var searchFor = constraint.ToString (); Console.WriteLine ("searchFor:" + searchFor); var matchList = new List<string>(); var matches = from i in a.AllItems where i.IndexOf(searchFor) >= 0 select i; foreach (var match in matches) { matchList.Add (match); } a.MatchItems = matchList.ToArray (); Console.WriteLine ("resultCount:" + matchList.Count); Java.Lang.Object[] matchObjects; matchObjects = new Java.Lang.Object[matchList.Count]; for (int i = 0; i < matchList.Count; i++) { matchObjects[i] = new Java.Lang.String(matchList[i]); } results.Values = matchObjects; results.Count = matchList.Count; } return results; } protected override void PublishResults (Java.Lang.ICharSequence constraint, Filter.FilterResults results) { a.NotifyDataSetChanged(); } } } } -----Original Message----- From: monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Pobst Sent: 05 January 2012 21:46 To: Discussions related to Mono for Android Subject: Re: [mono-android] AutoCompleteTextView Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but we have this code here: https://github.com/xamarin/monodroid-samples/blob/master/ApiDemo/Tutorials/A utoCompleteTutorial.cs Jonathan On 1/5/2012 3:32 PM, Tom Opgenorth wrote: > I've use this before (in Java). Has anybody tried to out with M4A and > would be willing share a sample/snippet? > > > > -- > http://www.opgenorth.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > Monodroid@lists.ximian.com > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
