I have an AutoCompleteTextView, which takes care of filtering my results.

I am attempting to implement an onscreen keyboard, but since the autocomplete will cover the keyboard, I want to delay the dropdown until after a button has been pressed.

I can tell it to showDropDown() - but then the results have not been filtered. There is a performFiltering method that is not visible. Is there anyway I can make this thing at least THINK that I have typed something, and cause it to filter the results?

I ended up cheating, and sending a space, then a delete to the text area using dispatchKeyEvent:

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textBox.dispatchKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE));
textBox.dispatchKeyEvent(new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL));


I noticed with the MultiAutoCompleteTextView, it seems you can control the performFiltering, but it may require you to perform the custom filtering, instead of the built in one.. so I passed on that.