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How to get certain field from the arrayList object on spinner selection

I just created a spinner and make this spinner read from the database. and display them in the spinner. I already did that. But I want to right down the Id of the selected item.
for example : when I select the first raw called (1, tyat abdullah, sergurey )
I need the Id (1) only to be written down without the full record.

I need the Id (1) only to be written down without the full record.
Then when you are doing labels.add, only put the data you want to see
You can also use doctorsList.get(position) within the selection listener, and set the other text view accordingly.
For example, doctorsList.get(position).getId() seems to get the information you are asking for

simply use this to get the selected item index
int index = spinner.getSelectedItemPosition(); //this will give you the seleected item index
is that what you want ?
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Get the respective value from the array according to selected item position

I have a spinner and I'm getting its selected item position by MyOnItemSelectedListener. By the time I'm using an array adapter to load items to the spinner. I have loaded the items and it works perfectly. But I have a small problem. When I doesn't select a value then it shows position 0 but it has got the value of 1st array value. As shown in the below image,
What I want to do is when I haven't select a value then it should get any value from array. And when I select 1st item then only it should get 1st array value.
Array is a created from json response so it is not possible to add a item to array manually.
I have used How to make an Android Spinner with initial text "Select One" (aaronvargas's answer) to add slect option to spinner as 1st selection.
How can I achieve this? Any help will be highly appreciated.

You can use the logic like :
int selectedValue = -1;
if(position<=0){
//Means Item not selected
}else{
selectedValue = array[position-1];
}

I think you can use something like I have shown.
if(position==0){
variable = 0;
}else{
//use ur logic here
}

how to set spinner selection by text inside it

I preparing a form in which i have to use same page for Adding details and Editing details. While adding details all fields will be blank and spinner selection will be set to "no selection".
Now i want to set the spinner selection of the item which i am going to pass from the previous activity. How to achieve this ??
As spinner does not have any method something like, setSelection(String string);
Or is there any other way, i can achieve this mechanism...
Would anyone please help me...

This is what i did and it seems to work fine
Spinner my_spinner=(Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spn_items);
ArrayAdapter<String> array_spinner=(ArrayAdapter<String>)my_spinner.getAdapter();
my_spinner.setSelection(array_spinner.getPosition("list item"));

I dont now how frequently this might be used but we can set selection of the spinner by text inside it.
Spinner has the method setSelection(int position);.
Now in the parameter we need to pass position of the text, which we can get from the array_list we use to bind to adapter, by getIndexOf(Object object) and object should be of the type of ArrayList that is declared For example, if ArrayList is of type String, the object to be passed to getIndexOf(Object object) should be of type String.
Finally, you set selection as below:
spinner.setSelection ( spinner_array_list.indexOf(string) );

Android : Set a value from an external file in a spinner

I'm stuck on a problem with spinners.
Actually, I have some tabs with spinners and EditText that I create without any porblems. I have to keep the datas that the user type in an xml file. So I create an xml file and it workd fine.
I also have a loading tab that permis to load datas saved in this xml. So I load the file, I parse it and I fill my EditTexts without any problems.
The problem is from the spinner : I can't put the data from the XML I created in my spinner.
I tried by saving it as a string and then I tried to load it in the spinner by this way :
(Spinner) spinner.setPrompt(string);
That doesn't work, I have the default value but not the saved value.
I also tried to save the integer of the choice made by the user. And then to reload it by this way :
(Spinner) spinner.setSelection(Integer.parseInt(string));
I don't think I use it properly cause I have a FC.
So I don't really know how to proceed to load the value from the xml in my spinner.
Any idea ?
Thanks !

Try this:
String myString = "some value"; //the value you want the position for
ArrayAdapter myAdap = (ArrayAdapter) mySpinner.getAdapter(); //cast to an ArrayAdapter
int spinnerPosition = myAdap.getPosition(myString);
//set the default according to value
mySpinner.setSelection(spinnerPosition);
From:
How to set selected item of Spinner by value, not by position?

why onItemSelected() not return "null" value when nothing selected from spinner

in my app i have a spinner and a button below it when i run the program suppose this page is open which contains spinner and a button ,when i dont select any item from spineer it takes first values of spinner by default i want if nothing is selected it contains null value ..... how to do this??? thankss a lot my code is..

HI Saurabh,
I would suggest you to give your first spinner value as "--Select--" or some message. And try to validate in your code, by checking return value of the spinner which should not be the first manual value that you given into the spinner.
You can refer this page
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-spinner.html

the parameter "position" records your selected item.so you can use this parameter.