AutoHintTextView

This library allows you to set custom suggestions for hint auto-complete!

How to

Gradle

dependencies {
implementation 'com.creativesource:autohinttextview:0.1.1'
}

In your XML layout

<com.creativesourceapps.android.AutoHintTextView
android:id="@+id/tv_auto_hint"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:padding="12dp"app:hint="Type a color"app:caseSensitive="false"android:entries="@array/colors"/>

Custom Attributes

Attribute	Description
caseSensitive	Whether or not text case is a suggestion factor
entries	Location of suggestion resource array

In your Java code

autoHintTextView = (AutoHintTextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_auto_hint);
autoHintTextView.setCaseSensitive(false)
autoHintTextView.setSuggestions(R.array.colors);
autoHintTextView.addHintChangedListener(newTextWatcher() {
@OverridepublicvoidbeforeTextChanged(CharSequences, intstart, intcount, intafter) {
// do stuff 
}
@OverridepublicvoidonTextChanged(CharSequences, intstart, intbefore, intcount) {
// do stuff 
}
@OverridepublicvoidafterTextChanged(Editables) {
// do stuff 
}
});

Custom Methods

Method	Description
setSuggestions(ArrayList<String> suggestions) setSuggestions(int resId)	Sets custom hint suggestions
setCaseSensitive(Boolean boolean)	Whether or not text case is a suggestion factor
addHintChangedListener(TextWatcher textWatcher)	Listens to changes to suggestion hint
addTextChangedListener(TextWatcher textWatcher)	Listens to changes to entry text

License

Copyright 2019 Jantz Carney
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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