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How to set AutoCompleteTextView with his first value from the arrayAdapter with inputType of none

So I have this AutoCompleteTextView
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.FilledBox.ExposedDropdownMenu">
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/actv_choices"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:hint="Choose"
android:inputType="none"
android:text="Handicapped "/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
This is how it looks visualy
I want to achieve that when the client starts the activity it will initialize the value of the AutoCompleteTextView to be one of the values of my list values that I set in the adapter
for example, I got these values
And I want that when the client opens the app it will set the value to be for example the second value like that by default
How can I achieve this?

After setting the adapter for your autoComplete textView you can do this:
Your custom data list ex. List<YourCustomModel> data
actvChoices.setText(data.get(index));

TextView inside TextSwitcher gravity bottom wont work

I have a standard TextView and TextSwitcher:
The TextView:
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:textColor="#3F51B5"
android:textSize="40sp"
android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="4dp"
android:paddingRight="4dp"
android:background="#android:color/black">
The TextSwitcher:
<TextSwitcher
android:id="#+id/questionTextSwitcher"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/white"/>
The text of the TextView changes dynamically, and sometimes the text is a couple lines.
The black background is the TextView, and the white is the TextSwitcher:
When there is a longer text set it looks like this:
When there is a smaller text it looks like this:
I want the TextView to be placed at the bottom of the TextSwitcher - but that isn't happening?

try to match the parent height and also use the layout_gravity attribute.

Picasso centerCrop and fit get different results

I want to insert an image to an ImageView, which gets used as a background. This background is in a RecyclerView. When it gets loaded the first time, it looks like this:
But when I scroll to another item and scroll back, it looks like this (it should always look like this):
Here i add the image:
public void onBindViewHolder(StoryViewHolder holder, int position) {
holder.cardView.setMinimumHeight(height/3);
holder.layout.setMinimumHeight((int) ((float) width / 4));
//set image
Picasso.with(activity).load(MainPostAdapter.URL + 140 + ".png").
transform(new BlurTransform(holder.background.getContext())).fit().centerCrop().into(holder.background);
holder.background.setAlpha(0.25f);
}
And this is the image itself:
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/story_view_background"/>
What could the problem be?
EDIT:
whole XML (It doesn't show all of the code. Here is also pastebin:http://pastebin.com/8rJvSx7V):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/story_view_background"/>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/story_view_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingTop="50px">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/story_view_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/story_view_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="13sp"
android:layout_below="#+id/story_view_image"
android:paddingBottom="8dp"
android:paddingTop="8dp"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

try to set android:layout_height="150dp" for your CardView (don't use px!). Its child FrameLayout is unnecesarry (CardView is extending FrameLayout and have set same attributes set), remove it.
It's not so well written, all your Views have match_parent set for height, besides Image and Text views... Your item is probably trying to fit RecyclerView height in this case ("whole screen") and is measured without image at first time (Picasso async downloading, setting image when view is already measured). But when you inflate your View again (scroll and recycle) new list item will be measured differently, because Picasso will insert your image "in runtime", no need to async fetching (cache)

how to define correctly textview width

Hi everyone i got a little problem about the width of my textview
it looks like this
as you can see, my textview is bigger than my text :/
here is my code :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="2">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="destinataire"
android:id="#+id/tv_destinataire"
android:layout_gravity="left|top"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_marginLeft="25dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:textColor="#000000" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="envoyeur"
android:id="#+id/tv_envoyeur"
android:layout_gravity="right|top"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_marginRight="25dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" />
</LinearLayout>
i would like something like this, if the message contain some word well "wrap_content" whereas is long long message something like maximum 70% of width :
thank you :)

You can reach what you said adding some logic directly on your activity and not in the XML file. You can set the width by Java code with something like:
TextView t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
where myTextView is the id that you declared in your XML.
Now go ahead and write some logic...
If is necessary:
t.setWidth(200);
Note that 200 is only an example, you can calculate the width you need before.

If I were you, I might use the relative layout and add maxWidth limit to TextView containing text, and as the dialog going, just place the TextView below the last TextView and use alignStart/alightParentStart and alignEnd/alignParentEnd to indicate who's speaking.
when a new message arrives
prepare your relative layout parameter, add layout rules
set text, maxwidth limit, layout parameter and other style you want for your text
add the view to a scrollable relative layout container
Sorry for my bad English in case of you have any reading problem. :)

How to programmatically hide android some, but not all, view items in an XML output?

I'm trying to program a disc golf scoring app on Eclipse for my android phone. I'd like to set it up for up to 6 players, but mostly 2 people will use it for a game. The data is being stored in a sqlite DB, and I am using a SimpleCursorAdapter to populate the data for holes that have already been scored. here is that code:
private void fillData() {
Cursor notesCursor = mDbHelper.fetchAllNotes();
startManagingCursor(notesCursor);
// Create an array to specify the fields we want to display in the list (only TITLE)
String[] from = new String[]{DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_HOLE,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_PAR,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_TOM_HOLE,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_TOM_GAME,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_CRAIG_HOLE,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_CRAIG_GAME,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_TOMS_POSITION,
DiscGolfDbAdapter.KEY_SKIP_PLAYER
};
// and an array of the fields we want to bind those fields to (in this case just text1)
int[] to = new int[]{R.id.schole, R.id.scpar, R.id.scth, R.id.sctg, R.id.scch, R.id.sccg, R.id.sctp,
R.id.skip};
// Now create a simple cursor adapter and set it to display
SimpleCursorAdapter notes =
new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.hole_info, notesCursor, from, to);
setListAdapter(notes);
}
From searching the internet I've found what I think are two posibilities that SHOULD work, but do not.
First I've tried the XML Attribute: android.visibility. It looks like this in the PORTION of the view that I am trying to "test" hide:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android.visibility="GONE">
<TextView android:id="#+id/scch"
android:layout_width="45dip"
android:gravity="right"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/sccg"
android:layout_width="45dip"
android:gravity="right"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
I have tried it with "GONE", "Gone" and "gone". NONE of them work in the eclipse emulator OR on my actual phone. So, there is no point in trying to parameterize this attribute.
Next I've tried setting the XML attribute for android:layout_height to "0dip". This indeed works in the emulator and on my phone WHEN IT IS HARDCODED.
Then I moved to the next logical step (as I see it), storing a parameter in the DB so that I can "show" or "not show" the item DEPENDING on conditions within the record. So, I've stored a field in the DB with two values "0dip" and "wrap_content". I pass these to the layout as shown in the java above as R.id.skip. I've also added these to the output just to audit that they are really there. Here is that XML:
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#+id/skip">
<TextView android:id="#+id/scch"
android:layout_width="45dip"
android:gravity="right"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/sccg"
android:layout_width="45dip"
android:gravity="right"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
<TextView android:id="#+id/skip"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_width="315dip"
android:textSize="10sp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
In the above test, both via the Eclipse emulator and my android phone, the last TextView confirms that the DB contains either "0dip" or "wrap_content", BUT the LinearLayout with:
android:layout_height="#+id/skip">
behaves as if it were "0dip" ALL of the TIME. In other words, I cannot PROGRAMMATICALLY" affect the XML attribute for android:layout_height.
If there is a better/more standard way of accomplishing what I am trying to do, please share - BUT BE CLEAR. I am new, so CODE EXAMPLES wwill work best for me.
May 29th - It seems to me (based on testing) that you cannot alter layout attributes for the layout specified in this code:
SimpleCursorAdapter notes = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
R.layout.hole_info,
notesCursor, from, to);
setListAdapter(notes);
Anything I try leads to some error ort another. So, I've seen examples of custom list adapters where these attributes are altered, so I'm trying to convert to a custom list adapter.

Why not do it in code?
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.your_layout_id);
ll.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Your XML layout code
android.visibility="GONE"
should be
android:visibility="GONE"
Change visible of a LinearLayout like Gabriel Neguţ say:
LinearLayout ll =
(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.your_layout_id);
ll.setVisibility(View.GONE);
or change height of LinearLayout:
LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.your_layout_id);
LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) ll.getLayoutParams();
lp.height = 0; // or lp.height = LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
ll.setLayoutParams(lp);

What about this guy's solution http://enjoyandroid.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/customizing-simple-cursor-adapter/
Kind of worked for me.