# hoteltonight/HTAutocompleteTextField

Repository: https://github.com/hoteltonight/HTAutocompleteTextField
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/htautocompletetextfield
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-03-11T08:22:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4997, "days_push": 2732, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1036, forks 102 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:19.151989+00:00)

## What it is
HTAutocompleteTextField is an Objective-C subclass of UITextField for iOS that displays real-time text suggestions as the user types, most commonly for autocompleting email address domains. It supports custom autocomplete data sources via a protocol so developers can suggest any type of completion.

## Use cases
- autocomplete email domains as users type in a sign-up form
- show inline text suggestions in an iOS text field
- customize autocomplete suggestions with a custom data source
- reduce typos in email input fields in a mobile app
- add typeahead completion to UITextField in Objective-C or Swift

## When to choose
- you are building an iOS app in Objective-C or Swift and want lightweight, drop-in text field autocomplete
- you specifically need email domain suggestions like gmail.com while typing
- you want a simple UITextField subclass you can customize with your own suggestion logic

## When to avoid
- you are not targeting iOS/UIKit
- you need full-featured search-style autocomplete with async network-backed suggestions
- you need a maintained solution with recent updates and Swift-native APIs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, form-handling
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools
- platform: cpp
- tags: objective-c, uitextfield, autocomplete, email-suggestions, cocoapods, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- hoteltonight/HTAutocompleteTextField (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:19.151989+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:04:40.571342+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hoteltonight/HTAutocompleteTextField (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:19.151989+00:00, sha 587adfe9f42e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.