Overlap a view in android

Question

The main layout have four widgets- one EditText and three TextView as given below.

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I want to add suggestion-list view dynamically as given below: enter image description here

How to do it?

For solving the issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22962064/customized-autosuggestion-view-in-android — Mohammed H, Apr 10 '14 at 10:44

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

You can use AutoCompleteTextView. Described in http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/text.html.

Probably Custom adapter will help you to make two suggestions lists. Take a look at this Autocompletetextview with custom adapter and filter. I guess you need to create divider in custom adapter.

As described in comments. Just Make listview visible when you need to show suggestions. Or paste in eclipse and remove android:visibility="gone" attribute and you will see gray listview over textviews.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/search"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/search"
        android:text="text1" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/tv_1"
        android:text="text2" />

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:layout_below="@id/search"
        android:background="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:visibility="gone" />

</RelativeLayout>

Read the attached question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22962064/customized-autosuggestion-view-in-android — Mohammed H, Apr 10 '14 at 10:51
Another soultion is to create EditText with ListView. Place listview with divider and filtered suggestions under your edittext and make it visible when user typing smthing in EditText. — Andrew F, Apr 10 '14 at 11:00
Then the three TextView widgets will go down. The list view should overlap the three TextView widgets. Anyway, thanks for your help. — Mohammed H, Apr 10 '14 at 11:03
And what's the problem? You can do this with relative layout. — Andrew F, Apr 10 '14 at 11:05
Useful suggestions, let me try to solve my issue using these suggestions. — Mohammed H, Apr 10 '14 at 11:19

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '14 at 10:46

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There is a class already built into android which gives you think functionality.

It's called AutoCompleteTextView

answered Apr 10 '14 at 10:46

jiduvah

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That can display only one list. Here I want two list. – Mohammed H Apr 10 '14 at 10:50
It's unfair to downvote both answers. Both are good suggestions to start what looks like a god awful interface – jiduvah Apr 10 '14 at 10:55
Suggestion should be added as comment to the question, not as answer. Answer should be the solution to the question. – Mohammed H Apr 10 '14 at 10:58

Overlap a view in android

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