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    copied!<p>I am writing an Android app that uses an AutoCompleteTextView just like the API example. The problem is that my text is too long and needs to wrap when the dropdown occurs. I have a custom list_item.xml, but only one line of text displays. The list_item.xml layout wraps to 2 lines if used with a spinner, but not with the AutoCompleteTextView.</p> <p>main.java</p> <pre><code>public class main extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); AutoCompleteTextView textView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_country); ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt; adapter = new ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt;(this, R.layout.list_item, COUNTRIES); textView.setAdapter(adapter); } static final String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] { "This is the first line that is too long and it needs to wrap content", "Albania", "Algeria", "American Samoa", "Andorra", "This is a second line that also needs to wrap its content", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Barbados", "Belarus", "Belgium" }; } </code></pre> <p>main.xml</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dp"&gt; &lt;TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Country" /&gt; &lt;AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autocomplete_country" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"/&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p>list_item.xml</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="10dp" android:textSize="16sp" android:textColor="#000" &gt; &lt;/TextView&gt; </code></pre>
 

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