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spinner value updation by another spinner which uses autocomplete text view not working

I have two spinners in which the first spinner uses autocomplete textview , when first spinner item is selected in normal way without using autocomplete text view the second spinner loads the corresponding value according to the first spinners selection. My issue is that when autocomplete textview is used for selecting first spinner value the second spinner is not loaded with the values according to first spinners selection. can any one please tell me a solution
public void vesselspinnerHandler(){
//Setting Class to Spinner
final ArrayAdapter<String> vesselspinnerAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, vessellist);
vesselspinnerAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
vesselspinner.setAdapter(vesselspinnerAdapter);
vesselspinnerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
final AutoCompleteTextView searchvessel=findViewById(R.id.searchvessel);
final AutoCompleteTextView selves = findViewById(R.id.selectedvessel);
ArrayAdapter adapter1 = new ArrayAdapter(selection.this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item,vessellist);
selves.setAdapter(adapter1);
selves.setDropDownVerticalOffset(50);
vesselspinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
selves.setText(vesselspinner.getSelectedItem().toString());
searchvessel.setText(selves.getText().toString());
getdate();//second spinner call
return;
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
}
});
}

Get last selected Spinner value before change

I have a spinner and I want to get the last selected value of it when I click on the spinner (basically just before the items in the list are being shown).
How can I achieve this?
Update:
Example: There are a dynamic amount of spinners. User clicks in spinner 1 and selects a value, let's say "house". Then clicks somewhere else. Then clicks in spinner 1 again. What I now need is to return the value "house" that was previously was selected before the user selects a different value i.e. "car" in that spinner. I can not use the local storage to save that value beforehand because it's going to be a dynamic amount of spinners to be added.
And yes, I did in fact read the documentation at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/spinner.html already but what I need isn't explained there.

Maybe you can declare a String array and then use it to storage the items values. Showing this in a TextView is a way to see if it works.
Something like this:
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
long arg3) {
selection.setText(items[arg2]);
}
I already have faced a similar situation, but I don't remember exactly how I solved it. Tell me if it gives a better idea to you, I'm new participating here.

Spinner mySpinner=(Spinner) findViewById(R.id.your_spinner);
String text = mySpinner.getSelectedItem().toString();
When the user selects an item from the drop-down, the Spinner object
receives an on-item-selected event.
To define the selection event handler for a spinner, implement the
AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener interface and the corresponding
onItemSelected() callback method. For example, here's an
implementation of the interface in an Activity:
public class SpinnerActivity extends Activity implements OnItemSelectedListener {
...
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int pos, long id) {
// An item was selected. You can retrieve the selected item using
// parent.getItemAtPosition(pos)
}
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
// Another interface callback
}
}
The AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener requires the onItemSelected()
and onNothingSelected() callback methods.
Then you need to specify the interface implementation by calling
setOnItemSelectedListener():
Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
IN YOUR CASE:
TO se if the user clicked on the spinner, do this:
if (spin.getSelectedItemPosition() < 0) {
Spinner mySpinner=(Spinner) findViewById(R.id.your_spinner);
String text = mySpinner.getSelectedItem().toString();
}
This means user clicked the spinner, but not any items of it.
EDIT AGAIN
public class SpinnerActivity extends Activity implements OnItemSelectedListener {
> ...
>
> public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
> int pos, long id) {
> parent.getItemAtPosition(pos) //THIS GETS YOU THAT VALUE THAT THE USER CLICKED ON DYNAMICALLY
> }
>
> public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
> // Another interface callback
> }
> }
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/spinner.html

Solution is to add a TextView widget with each added Spinner. Set the TextView to "gone" (not visible). When the spinner changes set the value to that TextView. This way you can store the last selected spinner value in the TextView. When the user clicks on the spinner and changes the value you can still access the previously selected/unselected value from the spinner through the TextView widget.
// Use this TextView to temporarily store the spinner value
final TextView hiddenTextView = new TextView(getContext());
hiddenTextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
final Spinner spinner = new Spinner(getContext());
spinner.setPrompt(getString(R.string.email_other));
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(getContext(), R.array.email_types, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView, View selectedItemView, int position, long id) {
Log.d(TAG, "TextView Value before spinner change: " + hiddenTextView.getText());
String spinnerValue = String.valueOf(spinner.getSelectedItem());
hiddenTextView.setText(spinnerValue);
Log.d(TAG, "TextView Value after spinner change: " + hiddenTextView.getText());
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView) {
return;
}
});

Binding listeners of spinners added programmatically to the same function

I have a form that for every filter added a new spinner is created with the same options every time. The functionality when selecting an item from the spinner is the same for every spinner, so I was thinking of how to bind the onItemSelected to the same function for every spinner I create.
My solution is to set the listener as I would usually do and call my function with the arguments of the overridden onItemSelected. Is this correct, or is there another way?
// Fix the width of the spinner so it doesn't get resized when making selections.
// Get the screen width and subtract the width of the button next to the spinner.
originalAttributeSelector = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.attributeSelector0);
originalAttributeSelector.getLayoutParams().width = displayWidth - originalOperatorSelector.getWidth();
// Create the adapter containing the list of choices for the spinner (as well the style for it)
// and bind it to the spinner.
ArrayAdapter<String> attributeSpinnerAdapter =
new ArrayAdapter<>(this, R.layout.spinner_item_material_ref, filterAttributes);
attributeSpinnerAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
originalAttributeSelector.setAdapter(attributeSpinnerAdapter);
originalAttributeSelector.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener()
{
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id)
{
// This is implemented somewhere else in the class
myOwnSharedOnItemSelected(parent, view, posiiton, id);
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent)
{
}
});

Android Spinner not calling onItemSelected

EDIT: I did a workaround and it SORT OF fixed my issue.
My layout for the spinner looks like
<LinearLayout>
<Spinner>
<TextView> //used as a label
</LinearLayout>
I removed the LinearLayout. Though the City spinner does not become auto-populated with items whenever a State is selected, I am able to manually input values for the City.
What could the linearlayout possibly do to mess up my spinner's behavior?
I have a registration form with multiple Edittexts and 3 spinners at the bottom namely State, City, Area.
What I want to be able to do is the following
onItemSelect a State, City and Area will show the first items in their list
onItemSelect a City, Area will show the first item in its list
onItemSelect an Area, it will show the item I selected.
Code is working fine on Kitkat. But on JellyBean and below, whenever I select a State, the other spinners do not show anything. After selecting a State, when you click on the City, it will show correct dataset, however when I click on an item the spinner remains blank. (onItemSelected does not fire.)
The weird part is that, whenever the spinners misbehave, if I click on one of the Edittexts in my view (softKeyboard will be shown) > Press back button > Spinner works. I'm not sure if it has something to do with focus? But I already tried to set the spinners to focusable and focusableInTouchMode then request focus, but to no avail.
this is how I set the adapters and content of the spinners
state.setAdapter(stateAdapter);
state.setSelection(0, false);
state.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
stateSelection = parent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();
cityAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getActivity(), R.layout.sherlock_spinner_item, getDistinctCity(stateSelection));
cityAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.sherlock_spinner_dropdown_item);
city.setAdapter(cityAdapter);
areaAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getActivity(), R.layout.sherlock_spinner_item, new String[]{});
areaAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.sherlock_spinner_dropdown_item);
area.setAdapter(areaAdapter);
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
}
});
city.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
citySelection = parent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();
areaAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getActivity(), R.layout.sherlock_spinner_item, getDistinctArea(stateSelection, citySelection));
areaAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.sherlock_spinner_dropdown_item);
area.setAdapter(areaAdapter);
}
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
}
});
area.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
areaSelection = parent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();
postalSelection = getDistinctPostal(stateSelection, citySelection, areaSelection);
postal.setText(postalSelection);
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
}
});
If anyone can explain to me why the spinners are behaving like this, or possibly lead me to the right direction, that would be awesome. Thank you

Spinner does not get selected after setting adapter

I have two spinner in dialog. Second one is dependent on first one. I want to bind it and then select it in edit mode. All works fine but second spinner does not get selected. However it get selected when I open my dialog next time.
Here is a part of my code.
ArrayAdapter<String> myAdap1 = (ArrayAdapter<String>) spnForeignKeyTable
.getAdapter();
int spinnerPosition1 = myAdap1.getPosition(objcolumn_schema
.getForeignKeyTable());
spnForeignKeyTable.setSelection(spinnerPosition1);
// Bind Column Spinner.Second spinner
dblist = DBAdapter.getColumns(pf.getString("dbid", ""),String.valueOf(objcolumn_schema.getForeignKeyTableID()));
ArrayAdapter<String> adpf = new ArrayAdapter<String>(
column.this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,
dblist);
adpf.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spnForeignKeyColumn.setAdapter(adpf);
int spinnerPosition2 = adpf.getPosition(objcolumn_schema.getForeignKey());
spnForeignKeyColumn.setSelection(spinnerPosition2);

for changing selected item in second spinner when first spinner selection change you will need to set setOnItemSelectedListener for first spinner as:
spinnerPosition1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener()
{
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View v,
int position, long id)
{
// change second Spinner selection here
}
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0)
{
//
}
});