Can I programmatically add chips to a RecipientEditTextView?

[Russell Stewart]

Thanks for this library; It's really well-done, and amazingly easy to use. I have a question though. Is there a way I can pre-populate a RecipientEditTextView with contacts? I.e., when I create my Activity or Fragment, I want to take a list of pre-existing names and phone numbers, and add them to the TextView as chips. Is this possible?

Thank you for your help!

[Jake Klinker]

Sure, just call submitItem() and pass it the correct information that you want to show in it as a chip.

[Russell Stewart]

Great! Thank you. This almost worked, but there is something odd about it.

So I have my RecipientEditTextView object, mTextContact, and I get a name and number to insert (both Strings). I call:

mTextContact.submitItem(name, number);

And what shows is an empty Chip. If I click on the chip, it populates with the name, but it doesn't show before that. Is there another function I need to call on mTextContact to complete the procedure?

[Kyle Szombathy]

Hello, did you ever solve this?

[ivishvenki]

Call the submitItem within a OnGlobalLayoutListener of ViewTreeObserver.

mTextContact.getViewTreeObserver()