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I want to create EditText with clickable menu underneath. User should be able to write his own custom text into EditText or choose from predefined options.

I though about adding recyclerView under EditText, but for 4-5 options its waste of recylerView. Is there any way to do it better (I dont want to write a lot of code for this feature).

AutoCompleteTextView is a component used to show suggestions while writing in an editable text field. The suggestions list is shown in a drop-down menu from which a user can select the desired item. The list of suggestions is obtained from an adapter and it appears only after a number of characters that are specified in the threshold.

Here is a simple example of AutoCompleteTextView:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" 

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="match_parent" 

        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

        android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

        android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" 

       tools:context=".MainActivity">



        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/textView"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"

            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"

            android:text="X" />



        <AutoCompleteTextView

            android:id="@+id/autoCompleteTextView"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"

            android:layout_below="@+id/textView"

            android:layout_marginLeft="36dp"

            android:layout_marginTop="17dp"

            android:ems="10"

            android:text="">



            <requestFocus />

        </AutoCompleteTextView>



    </RelativeLayout>

The MainActivity.java is defined below.

 public class MainActivity extends Activity {

        String animals = {"Ant", "Bbird", "Cat"};



        @Override

        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);



            //Creating the instance of ArrayAdapter containing list of fruit names

            ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>

                    (this, android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, animals);

            //Getting the instance of AutoCompleteTextView

            AutoCompleteTextView actv = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autoCompleteTextView);

            actv.setThreshold(1);//will start working from first character

            actv.setAdapter(adapter);//setting the adapter data into the AutoCompleteTextView

            actv.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);



        }

    }

try this,
xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:gravity="center"

android:orientation="vertical">



<TextView

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:text="State:" />



<AutoCompleteTextView

    android:id="@+id/autoCompleteTextView"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

java

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

AutoCompleteTextView autoCompleteTextView;

String arr={"used","new","repaired"};

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main2);

    autoCompleteTextView=findViewById(R.id.autoCompleteTextView);

    ArrayAdapter aa=new ArrayAdapter(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,arr);

    autoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(aa);

}

}