//initialize the ACTV
AutoCompleteTextView search = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.actvCatalogueSearch);
search.setThreshold(1); //set threshold

//experiment time!!

//I honestly don't know what this is for
int[] to = { android.R.id.text1 };

//initializing the cursorAdapter.
//please note that pdflist is the array I used for the ACTV value
SimpleCursorAdapter cursorAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
        android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, null, pdflist, to, 0);

cursorAdapter.setStringConversionColumn(1);

//FilterQueryProvider here
FilterQueryProvider provider = new FilterQueryProvider(){
    @Override
    public Cursor runQuery(CharSequence constraint) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Log.d("hi", "runQuery constraint: " + constraint);
        if (constraint == null) {
            return null;
        }
        String[] columnNames = { Columns._ID, "name" };
        MatrixCursor c = new MatrixCursor(columnNames);

        try {
            //loop through the array, then when an array element contains the constraint, add.
            for (int i = 0; i < pdflist.length; i++) {
                if(pdflist[i].contains(constraint)){
                    c.newRow().add(i).add(pdflist[i]);
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return c;
    }
};

cursorAdapter.setFilterQueryProvider(provider);
search.setAdapter(cursorAdapter);

requesting column name with table name -- <first element of array here>
.....
java.lang.IllegalArugmentException: column <first element of array here> does not exist