# EddyBorja/MLPAutoCompleteTextField

UITextfield subclass with autocomplete menu. For iOS.

Repository: https://github.com/EddyBorja/MLPAutoCompleteTextField
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mlpautocompletetextfield
Language: Objective-C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-11-14T07:00:40+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": 4956, "days_push": 2484, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1199, forks 217 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:57.898833+00:00)

## What it is
MLPAutoCompleteTextField is an Objective-C subclass of UITextField for iOS that displays a drop-down table of autocomplete suggestions as the user types. It supports customizable data sources and can show suggestions as a keyboard input accessory view.

## Use cases
- add autocomplete suggestions to an iOS text field
- reduce typing for long entries like chemical names
- show Google-style search suggestions while typing in a form
- display autocomplete suggestions above the keyboard
- build a typeahead input without a separate search view controller

## When to choose
- you are building an iOS app in Objective-C or Swift with UIKit and need an autocomplete text input
- you want a customizable, drop-in UITextField subclass with suggestion dropdown
- you need keyboard accessory-style autocomplete suggestions

## When to avoid
- you are building for SwiftUI only or cross-platform with React Native or Flutter
- you need a maintained library with active support and modern iOS APIs
- you need autocomplete for web or Android

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, form-handling
- domain: mobile-development, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: uitextfield, autocomplete, objective-c, cocoa-touch, ios, mobile

## Member repositories
- EddyBorja/MLPAutoCompleteTextField (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:57.898833+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 2026-08-30T06:20:52.003566+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/EddyBorja/MLPAutoCompleteTextField (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:57.898833+00:00, sha 2a011172da57)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.