Simple String Adapter for Android ListView that has a filter that gives whatever it finds and ignores word boundaries

list_item.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/list_view"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:textSize="16sp" >

</TextView>

SearchableAdapter.java

package com.yourco.yourapp;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.Filter;
import android.widget.Filterable;
import android.widget.TextView;

// The standard text view adapter only seems to search from the beginning of whole words
// so we've had to write this whole class to make it possible to search
// for parts of the arbitrary string we want
public class SearchableAdapter extends BaseAdapter implements Filterable {
	
	private List<String>originalData = null;
	private List<String>filteredData = null;
	private LayoutInflater mInflater;
	private ItemFilter mFilter = new ItemFilter();
	
	public SearchableAdapter(Context context, List<String> data) {
		this.filteredData = data ;
		this.originalData = data ;
    	mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    }

	public int getCount() {
		return filteredData.size();
	}

	public Object getItem(int position) {
		return filteredData.get(position);
	}

	public long getItemId(int position) {
		return position;
	}

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        // A ViewHolder keeps references to children views to avoid unnecessary calls
        // to findViewById() on each row.
        ViewHolder holder;

        // When convertView is not null, we can reuse it directly, there is no need
        // to reinflate it. We only inflate a new View when the convertView supplied
        // by ListView is null.
        if (convertView == null) {
            convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);

            // Creates a ViewHolder and store references to the two children views
            // we want to bind data to.
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            holder.text = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.list_view);

            // Bind the data efficiently with the holder.

            convertView.setTag(holder);
        } else {
            // Get the ViewHolder back to get fast access to the TextView
            // and the ImageView.
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        // If weren't re-ordering this you could rely on what you set last time
        holder.text.setText(filteredData.get(position));

        return convertView;
    }
	
    static class ViewHolder {
        TextView text;
    }

	public Filter getFilter() {
		return mFilter;
	}

	private class ItemFilter extends Filter {
		@Override
		protected FilterResults performFiltering(CharSequence constraint) {
			
			String filterString = constraint.toString().toLowerCase();
			
			FilterResults results = new FilterResults();
			
			final List<String> list = originalData;

			int count = list.size();
			final ArrayList<String> nlist = new ArrayList<String>(count);

			String filterableString ;
			
			for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
				filterableString = list.get(i);
				if (filterableString.toLowerCase().contains(filterString)) {
					nlist.add(filterableString);
				}
			}
			
			results.values = nlist;
			results.count = nlist.size();

			return results;
		}

		@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
		@Override
		protected void publishResults(CharSequence constraint, FilterResults results) {
			filteredData = (ArrayList<String>) results.values;
			notifyDataSetChanged();
		}

	}
}

my list comes in a fragment. how can i implement this method there

your search functionality is working fine but your code makes list view empty when we remove all characters in search field. it should load all the default data again

Thank you! This helped me a lot!

Thank you.. And another thanks to "eiprol" for editing

Amazing!!! A small edit,
public int getCount() {
return filteredData == null ? 0 : filteredData.size();
}

Perfect now :)
But when I do BackSpace, it is sorting until it has at least one character. On deleting the entire data, drop down is not shown. and when I click it again drop down is not coming.

WHYYYYYYYYYYY???????

@ganesh76 How do we show the default list when text is removed. Do you have any solution for this?

@prathibhaprabs You must update the results.values with the reference to the original data.
I've done this with the code below, before the for:

        if (filterString.isEmpty()) {
            results.values = list;
            results.count = list.size();
            return results;
        }

Thank you!!

Thanks a lot!! This helped me so much!

Thanks
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