You could use listView.setTextFilterEnabled(true) to allow 'automatic'
filtering then use listView.setFilterText("text typed in editText") to
filter the list. Works for me.

On Aug 15, 8:48 pm, usafrmajor <[email protected]> wrote:
> I currently have an EdittText box and this code for filtering a listview:
>
>       et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()
>        {
>         public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { }
>         public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
> int after) {}
>         public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,  
> int count)
>          { lv_movie_array.getFilter().filter(s); }
>        });
>
> Is there an equally simple way to search for a string within the list view
> items, not just from the first position like the filtering appears to do?  
> thanks

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