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    copied!<p>I want to select multiple contact from autocompletetextview. But right now I can able to select only one contact .</p> <p>Code is below.</p> <p><strong>MainActivity.java</strong></p> <pre><code>public class MainActivity extends Activity { private ArrayList&lt;Map&lt;String, String&gt;&gt; mPeopleList; private SimpleAdapter mAdapter; private AutoCompleteTextView mTxtPhoneNo; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); mPeopleList = new ArrayList&lt;Map&lt;String, String&gt;&gt;(); PopulatePeopleList(); mTxtPhoneNo = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.mmWhoNo); mAdapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, mPeopleList, R.layout.custcontview, new String[] { "Name", "Phone", "Type" }, new int[] { R.id.ccontName, R.id.ccontNo, R.id.ccontType }); mTxtPhoneNo.setAdapter(mAdapter); mTxtPhoneNo.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() { public void onItemClick(AdapterView&lt;?&gt; av, View arg1, int index, long arg3) { Map&lt;String, String&gt; map = (Map&lt;String, String&gt;) av.getItemAtPosition(index); String name = map.get("Name"); String number = map.get("Phone"); mTxtPhoneNo.setText(""+name+"&lt;"+number+"&gt;"); } }); } public void PopulatePeopleList() { mPeopleList.clear(); Cursor people = getContentResolver().query( ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null); while (people.moveToNext()) { String contactName = people.getString(people .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME)); String contactId = people.getString(people .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID)); String hasPhone = people .getString(people .getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER)); if ((Integer.parseInt(hasPhone) &gt; 0)){ // You know have the number so now query it like this Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query( ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = "+ contactId, null, null); while (phones.moveToNext()){ //store numbers and display a dialog letting the user select which. String phoneNumber = phones.getString( phones.getColumnIndex( ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)); String numberType = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex( ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE)); Map&lt;String, String&gt; NamePhoneType = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;(); NamePhoneType.put("Name", contactName); NamePhoneType.put("Phone", phoneNumber); if(numberType.equals("0")) NamePhoneType.put("Type", "Work"); else if(numberType.equals("1")) NamePhoneType.put("Type", "Home"); else if(numberType.equals("2")) NamePhoneType.put("Type", "Mobile"); else NamePhoneType.put("Type", "Other"); //Then add this map to the list. mPeopleList.add(NamePhoneType); } phones.close(); } } people.close(); startManagingCursor(people); } public void onItemClick(AdapterView&lt;?&gt; av, View v, int index, long arg){ Map&lt;String, String&gt; map = (Map&lt;String, String&gt;) av.getItemAtPosition(index); Iterator&lt;String&gt; myVeryOwnIterator = map.keySet().iterator(); while(myVeryOwnIterator.hasNext()) { String key=(String)myVeryOwnIterator.next(); String value=(String)map.get(key); mTxtPhoneNo.setText(value); } } } </code></pre> <p><strong>activity_main.xml</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" &gt; &lt;AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/mmWhoNo" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:hint="To...." android:textColor="#A5AA0000" &gt; &lt;/AutoCompleteTextView&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>custcontview.xml</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical" &gt; &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/ccontName" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Large Text" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" android:textColor="#A5AA0000" /&gt; &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/ccontNo" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_below="@id/ccontName" android:text="Medium Text" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:textColor="#A5AA0000" /&gt; &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/ccontType" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_above="@id/ccontNo" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_marginRight="14dp" android:text="Small Text" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" android:textColor="#A5AA0000" /&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>AndroidManifest.xml</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"/&gt; </code></pre>
 

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