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Spinner with Search on DropDown - Android Tutorial

If you have more values on Dropdown of Spinner its hard to select the last item by making a long scroll.

To overcome this issue Android introduced a component called AutoCompleteTextView

Yes it is!!! Then why Spinner with Search?

There may be some requirement even though gave much knowledge about it.

There is a simple and good library that helps us to achieve this - SearchableSpinner

Gradle

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation 'com.toptoche.searchablespinner:searchablespinnerlibrary:1.3.1'
}

Usage

Now replace your Normal Android Spinner on XML with the following
<com.toptoche.searchablespinnerlibrary.SearchableSpinner
    android:id="@+id/id_city"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    android:padding="5dp" />

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