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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;
}
});

Spinner, not set value if i dont click(android)

I have a spinner:
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int childposition, long id) {
textView.setText(spinner.getSelectedItem().toString());
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
textView.setText("");
}
});
Above you'll see that textView - is my text object. I'm displaying a text item spinner in the textView when I click it. If I dont click the spinner then my textView must be textView.setText("");
But the spinner is always set text in my textView, even if I do not choose spinner.
Question
How can I accomplish this?:
If I dont choose item spinner, textView is empty: textView.setText("");
If I do choose the item spinner, textView gets: textView.setText(spinner.getSelectedItem().toString());

String item = parent.getItemAtPosition(childposition).toString(); //Get selected item
if(item.equals("spinner")){ // Check if it equals spinner
textView.setText(item); // Set text to item
}else{
textView.setText(""); // If it doesn't equal spinner set text to ""
}
If I understood the question right, putting this instead of textView.setText(spinner.getSelectedItem().toString()); and deleting content of onNothingSelected should do the trick.
UPDATE
I finally understood what you mean. To do this create your spinner like this and add "" as first choice in your string-array resource :
String[] newArray = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.yourArray);
List<String> myResArrayList = Arrays.asList(newArray);
ArrayList<String> spinnerItems = new ArrayList<String>(myResArrayList);
//Making adapter with ArrayList instead of String[] allows us to add/remove items later in the code
Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
// Create an ArrayAdapter using the string array and a default spinner layout
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, spinnerItems);
// Specify the layout to use when the list of choices appears
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
// Apply the adapter to the spinner
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
spinnerItems.remove(0);
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); // Here we remove the first choice which is "" so the user won't be able to select empty.

How to review the selected item on spinner

Here is my code for my spinner.. i want it to save to my database by using setText but theres no option for setting it into setText.. this is how i want it to save on my database spinpstat.setText(student.status);
this is how i want it to declare in my onClick(View view)
student.status = spinpstat.getText.toString(); but it gives me following error
spinpstat = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
ArrayAdapter adapterstat = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.statuslist, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
adapterstat.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spinpstat.setAdapter(adapterstat);
spinpstat.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
projstat = spinpstat.getSelectedItem().toString();
spinpstat.setSelection(position);
parent.getItemAtPosition(position);
}
#Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
}
});
this is the data i saved .. i set the spinner status in old student
but this how the data result in review of the data i saved.. my spinner instead of status is old student it set as new student which is the first value in my spinner list
any help will do.. thanks in advance..

Use Spinner.setSelection to set selected item from Spinner like:
spinpstat.setSelection(adapterstat.getPosition(student.status));
And get selected item from Spinner on onClick as:
student.status = spinpstat.getSelectedItem().toString();

How to dynamically change the Spinner's items

I have two spinners. Country and City.
I want to dynamically change the City's values upon Country selection.
I know how to create and initialize the values of Country but don't know how to set and change the City's values.
Any guidance is appreciated.
UPDATES1
The problem is, I don't have idea on how to update the content of City Spinner. I know listener and other basics on how to create a fixed spinner.

For the second spinner, use an Adapter over a List<String> (or whatever your City representation is). After changing the contents of the list, call notifyDataSetChanged on the adapter, and that will do.

You need to get a programmatic reference to the spinner, something like this:
Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
this, R.array.planets_array, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
Then to update your city's values, use an OnItemSelectedListener, like this:
public class MyOnItemSelectedListener implements OnItemSelectedListener {
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent,
View view, int pos, long id) {
//update content of your city spinner using the value at index,
// id, or the view of the selected country.
}
}
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView parent) {
// Do nothing.
}
}
Finally, you need to bind the listener to the country spinner like this:
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new MyOnItemSelectedListener());
see here for reference: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-spinner.html