AutoCompleteTextView databinding

BindingAdapters.kt

@BindingAdapter("valueAttrChanged")
fun AutoCompleteTextView.setListener(listener: InverseBindingListener?) {
    this.onItemSelectedListener = if (listener != null) {
        object : AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
            override fun onNothingSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?) {
                listener.onChange()
            }

            override fun onItemSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?, view: View?, position: Int, id: Long) {
                listener.onChange()
            }
        }
    } else {
        null
    }
}


@get:InverseBindingAdapter(attribute = "value")
@set:BindingAdapter("value")
var AutoCompleteTextView.selectedValue: Any?
    get() = if (listSelection != ListView.INVALID_POSITION) adapter.getItem(listSelection) else null
    set(value) {
        val newValue = value ?: adapter.getItem(0)
        setText(newValue.toString(), true)
        if (adapter is ArrayAdapter<*>) {
            val position = (adapter as ArrayAdapter<Any?>).getPosition(newValue)
            listSelection = position
        }
    }


@BindingAdapter("entries", "itemLayout", "textViewId", requireAll = false)
fun AutoCompleteTextView.bindAdapter(entries: Array<Any?>, @LayoutRes itemLayout: Int?, @IdRes textViewId: Int?) {
    val adapter = when {
        itemLayout == null -> {
            ArrayAdapter(context, R.layout.item_dropdown, R.id.dropdownText, entries)
        }
        textViewId == null -> {
            ArrayAdapter(context, itemLayout, entries)
        }
        else -> {
            ArrayAdapter(context, itemLayout, textViewId, entries)
        }
    }
    setAdapter(adapter)
}

Layout.xml

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/tilGender"
    style="@style/AppTheme.DropDownMenu"
    android:prompt="@string/label_gender"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/tilLastName">

    <AutoCompleteTextView
        android:hint="@string/label_gender"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        entries="@{@stringArray/genders}"
        value="@={viewModel.gender}"
        android:editable="false"/>

</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

style.xml

<style name="AppTheme.DropDownMenu" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.ExposedDropdownMenu">
    <item name="android:layout_width">0dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginTop">@dimen/margin_regular</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginBottom">@dimen/margin_regular</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginStart">@dimen/margin_large</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginEnd">@dimen/margin_large</item>
    <item name="hintTextColor">@color/colorpalette_blue</item>
    <item name="boxStrokeColor">@color/outlined_stroke_color</item>
</style>

@Roberasd can you paste the code that use the binding as else?

I am using this approach and it works:

@BindingAdapter("dropdown_text")
fun setDropDownText(view: ExposedDropDown, liveData: MutableLiveData<String>) {
    if (liveData.value != null) {
        if (!view.text.equals(liveData.value)) {
            view.setText(liveData.value, false)
        }
    }
}

@InverseBindingAdapter(attribute = "dropdown_text")
fun getDropDownText(view: ExposedDropDown): String {
    return view.text.toString()
}

@BindingAdapter("dropdown_textAttrChanged")
fun setDropDownListener(view: ExposedDropDown, listener: InverseBindingListener) {
    view.setOnItemClickListener { _, _, _, _ -> listener.onChange() }
}

In my XML:

<com.example.app.framework.ui.view.utils.ExposedDropDown
                android:id="@+id/calibrate_option_shipping_first_dropdown"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:inputType="none"
                app:dropdown_adapter="@{@stringArray/calibrate_option_shipping_first_menu_context}"
                app:dropdown_text="@={vm.shippingFirstDdText}"/>

ExposedDropDown is my custom class that inherits AutoCompleteTextView

The only problem I have when I use another onItemClickListener that my liveData gets erased aka. never set

@BindingAdapter("dropdown_behavior")
fun setDropDownBehavior(view: ExposedDropDown, behavior: (Int) -> Unit) {
    view.setOnItemClickListener { _: AdapterView<*>, _: View, selectedItem: Int, _: Long ->
        behavior(selectedItem)
    }
}