Feature request. Autocomplete

[squarenotch]

Just implemented the instant search and it works great thank you!

I have an android app where the search view is shown in every activity and when the user searches they are taken to a search results page. Where the searchbox/hit combination works great for instant searching, when the user is entering a search term on another activity an auto complete / drop down list of matches would be invaluable.

Thanks you for your efforts. Fantastic library.

[PLNech]

Hi @squarenotch, thank you for your feedback and kind words!

If I understand correctly, you want to build an autocomplete Activity where you would display results below the searchbar. Would a user clicking on the result be directed to a "main" search Activity, or directly see the result's detailed page?

• If it is the former, I'm glad to take this feature request and add it to our new features backlog 🙂

• If it is the latter, I believe you can already do so using a SearchBox followed by a Hits using a minimal hits_item.xml layout:

  <layout>
          <TextView
              android:id="@+id/autocomplete_result"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              algolia:attribute='@{"product_name"}'/>
  </layout>

  With the Hits widget having layout_height="wrap_content", you would have an auto complete UI with a SearchBox and a dropdown that contains the list of matches.