Search needs to autocomplete previous entries

[Kieran Fleming]

When using text based search, we need to store these entries and bring them up later using the autocomplete widget

[Murphy (murphy2712+launchpad)]

I'm actually working on this...

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

Murphy wrote:
> I'm actually working on this...

Cheers,

Chris.

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

Pushed-back. Needs re-assessing in line with other issues after 0.9 release.

Chris.

[Kieran Fleming (kieran-fleming)]

Murphy,
Are you still working on this? Otherwise I will give it a try.

[Neil Boyd (neilboyd)]

Just to let you know, it's actually quite easy. All you need to do is write a class that extends AutoCompleteTextView and use that instead of the TextView where you enter the text. Let me share the code that I use in MySpeed (attached).

The onClickListener handles the results, including storing in the database.

getRoutingSuggestions searches the database for matching results.

[Murphy (murphy2712+launchpad)]

Thanks for the code Neil.

I'm not working on it at the moment, you could do it Kerian.
Using Neil's code, you need to add a database and record the searched places.

A bonus could be to search in the contact addresses.