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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

