Overview

17 Jan 20251 minute to read

The Essential^® Xamarin.Android AutoComplete widget provides the suggestions while typing. The suggested text can be appended to the original text or it can be displayed in a drop-down list. Also provides a gesture friendly UI to perform operations like Suggest, Append and SuggestAppend.

Essential^® AutoComplete can be used in any search box.

Key Features

• Watermark - The control shows the watermark text.

• Autocomplete Mode - The control provides suggestions based on a predefined collection while typing.

• Suggestion Mode - The suggestions list can be displayed with 8 types of search pattern.

• AutoCompleteSource - A list of strings that is loaded to the control for displaying suggestions.

• Multiple Selection - AutoComplete provides 2 different ways to select multiple items from the suggestion list. They are using Token representation and Delimiter.

• Load More - Restrict the number of suggestions displayed and have the remaining items loaded by selecting LoadMore.

• Header and Footer - Header and Footer content can be given in the top and bottom of the Suggestion list in SfAutoComplete.

• Diacritic Sense - AutoComplete provides populating the items from a language with letters containing diacritics, and search for them with English characters from an en-US keyboard.

• Highlighting Text - AutoComplete provides highlighting the matching text in the Suggestion list based on the input given in it.

• Custom filter - AutoComplete provides the user to filter the item in the Suggestion list based on their filtering condition.