Flitering a ListView using an input from an EditText in Android.

Hello everyone

In today’s tutorial I will show you how to filter a ListView based on an input from the EditText.
This is really simple we just need to call getFilter().filter(search_string) on the adapter to filter the values from the ListViews.
Just take a look at this example.

Here is the layout file main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <EditText android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/filterText">
        <requestFocus></requestFocus>
    </EditText>
    <ListView android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/android:list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"></ListView>
</LinearLayout>

Here is the java file named FilterListViewsDemo.java

package pack.coderzheaven;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class FilterListViewsDemo extends ListActivity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        final ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1,
                getModel());
        setListAdapter(adapter);
        EditText filterEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.filterText);
        filterEditText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
                    int count) {
                adapter.getFilter().filter(s.toString());
            }

            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                    int after) {
            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            }
        });
    }

    private List<String> getModel() {
        List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
        list.add("Android");
        list.add("Windows7");
        list.add("iPhone");
        list.add("RIM");
        list.add("Symbian");
        list.add("Bada");
        list.add("MacOSX");
        list.add("WindowsXP");
        list.add("CoderzHeaven");
        return list;
    }
}

You can download the full source code from here