Btukfyl

I have an array (array1 with States) and AutoCompleteTextview in which I'm filling it with array1. When I select the value from AutocompleteTextView I select a state from AutoCompleteTextView Dropdown

What I want is to get the position of the item from array1 which I've selected.

What I've tried is OnClickEvent of AutocompelteTextView.

STATE.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){



    @Override

    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long rowId) {

        String selection = (String) parent.getItemAtPosition(position);

        String num = selection;

    }

});

It ss giving me the value which I selected from dropdown but i want to get the position of the value in array1. For Example I have an array of size 4, like array1 = {A,B,C,D}, and if I select B it should return me B position in Array i.e 2.

I hope I made it clear. Thanks in advance.

Use the position variable in the onItemClick.

STATE.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){



    @Override

    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long rowId) {

        String selection = (String) parent.getItemAtPosition(position);

        int pos = -1;



        for (int i = 0; i < yourarray.length; i++) {

            if (yourarray[i].equals(selection)) {

                pos = i;

                break;

            }

        }

        System.out.println("Position " + pos); //check it now in Logcat

    }

});

Use List instead of Array. Implement onItemClickListener for AutoCompleteTextView, then use indexOf on your list to find the index of selected item.

actvCity.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {



     @Override

     public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,

          long arg3) {

          int index = cityNames.indexOf(actvCity.getText().toString());

          // Do Whatever you want to do ;)

     }

});

            @Override

            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,int position, long id) 

            {

                TextView txtvw=(TextView) view;

                String str=txtvw.getText().toString();

                int index = contactNames.indexOf(str);

            } 

Item.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

                @Override

                public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

                    //// id contains item if from database

                    ItemNoSelected = id;

                }

            });

id is from database, we can use that

You can find the parent string in the clickItem listener.
OSchools in this case is the custom ArrayList.

Object item = parent.getItemAtPosition(position);

for(OSchools d : data){

Log.e("name",d.getName());

String name = d.getName();

if(d.getName() != null && name.contains(item.toString())){

       ID = d.getID();

}