Android: Spinner with changing ArrayAdapter - how to identify? - android

I want to have three Spinners with contents which depend on each other.
E.g. Spinner1 displays {item1, item2} and Spinner2 either {item3, item4} or {item5, item6} depending on whether item1 or item2 is selected on Spinner1.
The same I want for Spinner 3, which reacts to changes of Spinner1 and/or Spinner2.
For the latter, I have to determine first which of the possible value sets is shown atm in Spinner2.
My question is kind of similar to this question, but I don't know what to do after getting the adapter.
That's what I have so far:
ArrayAdapter adapter1 = (ArrayAdapter) spinner2.getAdapter();
if(items_spinner1[0].contentEquals(adapter1.getItem(0)))
{
//...
}
I get the adapter, ask for the first value and compare it to the first String value of my Array to identify it. It doesn't at all seem elegant to me. Is there an easier solution?

You say the contents of the later spinners depend on the selection in the earlier ones, but the code you posted depends only on the contents of a spinner.
adapter1.getItem(0) returns the first item in the list, not the currently selected item. To get the currently selected item, use the spinner's (not the adapter's) getSelectedItem() method.
You could, for example, put something like this in your first Spinner's onItemSelectedListener (edited based on your comment below):
public void onItemSelected (AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
Object selectedItem = parent.getSelectedItem();
// Do this if the first Spinner has a set of options that are
// known in advance.
if (/*selectedItem is something*/) {
// Set up the second Spinner in some way
} else if (/*selectedItem is something else*/) {
// Set up the second Spinner in another way
}
// OR, if you need to do something more complex
// that would cause too much clutter here, do this.
fillSecondSpinner(selectedItem);
}
Then place something similar in the second Spinner's onItemSelectedListener. Get the selected items from the first and second Spinners using getSelectedItem() (or the item positions using getSelectedItemId() for the first and the position parameter for the second). Use the selected items to set up the third.
Edit: The OnItemSelectedListener for the second Spinner would look something like this.
// This must be defined in the enclosing scope.
final Spinner firstSpinner; // Must be final to be accessible from inner class.
Spinner secondSpinner;
// ...
secondSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener {
public void onItemSelected (AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
// Again, usually the selected items should be of
// a more specific type than Object.
Object firstSelection = firstSpinner.getSelectedItem();
Object secondSelection = parent.getSelectedItem();
fillThirdSpinner(firstSelection, secondSelection);
}
public void onNothingSelected (AdapterView<?> parent) { }
});

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Getting data from custom list view on click

I have a custom ListView with two TextViews both containing different values. What I want to be able to do it get the contents from one of these TextViews when an item is clicked.
This is the code I have so far:
listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
String value;
// value = (get value of TextView here)
}
});
I want to be able to assign value to the text of one of the TextView's.
Although #Sam's suggestions will work fine in most scenarios, I actually prefer using the supplied AdapterView in onItemClick(...) for this:
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
Person person = (Person) parent.getItemAtPosition(position);
// ...
}
I consider this to be a slightly more fool-proof approach, as the AdapterView will take into account any header views that may potentially be added using ListView.addHeaderView(...).
For example, if your ListView contains one header, tapping on the first item supplied by the adapter will result in the position variable having a value of 1 (rather than 0, which is the default case for no headers), since the header occupies position 0. Hence, it's very easy to mistakenly retrieve the wrong data for a position and introduce an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for the last list item. By retrieving the item from the AdapterView, the position is automatically correctly offset. You can of course manually correct it too, but why not use the tools provided? :)
Just FYI and FWIW.
You have a few options. I reference the code from your previous question.
You can access this data from the row's layout view:
ViewHolder holder = (ViewHolder) view.getTag();
// Now use holder.name.getText().toString() and holder.description as you please
You can access the Adapter with position:
Person person = mAdapter.getItem(position);
// Now use person.name and person.description as you please
(By the way in your Person class, name and description are public so you don't need the get methods.)
Override following method in adaterclass.
public String[] getText() {
return text;
}

Display default text in a SpinnerAdapter (For an ActionBar navigation)

I've had a look at the documentation, but I'm not sure what would be the best way to approach this.
This is what I'm doing:
mActionBar = getActionBar();
mActionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);
SpinnerAdapter mSpinnerAdapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
R.array.platform_list,
android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
What I'm trying to do is give the dropdown list a default value - "Please Select a Type", when the application loads up and nothing is selected yet. This is because the selection will trigger a change in the listview fragment displayed below, and without a selection (at startup) i would like to display a simple placeholder image or something.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance!
Are you sure that what you want is a SpinnerAdapter? I spent a while today trying to figure out the same problem until I realised that what I actually wanted was just a SubMenu.
You can set the selection of the Spinner to a particular position which can display this text
public void setSelection (int position)
Since: API Level 1
Sets the currently selected item. To support accessibility subclasses that
override this method must invoke the overriden super method first.
Parameters
position Index (starting at 0) of the data item to be selected.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AbsSpinner.html#setSelection(int)
Its not clear you problem to me.But i guess you want to view a default view and after select anything you want to change the below list view.If i am correct you can do this like this.
create onItemSelectedListener
class Ranger implements AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent,
View view, int pos, long id) {
item= parent.getItemAtPosition(pos).toString();
//if the selected item is default do default things
//or else do the list view update
}
}

Cannot use onItemSelectListener() with Spinner with One Item

So I have a spinner (spinner2 here) which is populated via an ArrayAdapter from an SQLite table. On selecting an item I want it
deleted from the DB
deleted from the spinner
The code below actually works. Except when the spinner has only one item. When that happens
it seems onItemSelected is not called at all.
I get the following LogCat
10-01 22:30:55.895: WARN/InputManagerService(1143): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy#45a06028
Oh and when two items are populating the spinner, spinner.getcount() shows two items, so it's not some strange case of the system thinking the spinner is empty or something like that.
This is the code:
public class SpinnerItemSelectListener implements OnItemSelectedListener {
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
if(parent == spinner2){
if(autoselected){
autoselected=false;
}
else{
//uniqvalarray is the arraymade from pulling data from SQLite and populaitng array adapter
Integer i = uniquevalarray.get(pos);
deleteRow(i);//deletes the row from the database and repopulates the above array.
autoselected=true;//just a boolean to stop autoslecting in onCreate()
//makeAlert(i);initially wanted to make alert box.
loadSpinner2();//reloads the spinner with new data
}
}
}
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView parent) {
//TODO
}
}
The spinner runs this way : Only fire when you change the selected item . If you dont change that element , cause its the only one that exist , it can't change .
The solution i think you must use is using a button next to the spinner to throw the delete funcions.
You must think that Spinner is not made to be with an unique element , cause only changes usually when you change the selected one . then the natural solution can be that .

How to change data on one spinner by onclick on another spinner in android?

all i have two spinners spinner1 & spinner2. in one spinner i am showing names from database.(Ex. onkar) now if i select onkar name on spinner1 then all names must be occurred on spinner2 except name onkar.
i want to do like this.but i am not getting how to achieve it?
give me some sample or give idea for the same.
or can i change data of spinner dynamically????
Thanks in Advance--
consider that u have used two adapters to set data to spinner when u select first spinner just remove that value from second adapter and then call method notifyDataSetChanged() it will change second spinner data.
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,
long id) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onItemSelected(parent, view, position, id);
// Step 1: Remove Data from ArrayList 1
// Step 2: Adpater for first spinner .notifiyDataSetChanged()
}

display spinner2 if item xy in spinner1 is selected not working correctly

i have two spinners.
If in the first one the Item "Diesel" is selected i want to display the second one.
sKraftstoffArt.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
if(sKraftstoffArt.getSelectedItem().toString() == "Diesel"){
sPartikelfilterArt.setVisibility(sPartikelfilterArt.VISIBLE);
}
}
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView) {
return;
}
});
I've implemented this code in the onCreate method. When i select a item during the runtime i'm not getting the selected item text... It works only if the activity gets created and the default value gets selected....
Where else do i have to implement it?
Regards,
float
Unless your sKraftstoffArt object is not a final one, the check against it's selected item text inside an anonymous class won't work.
The adapterView among the parameters is your ListView instance to which you've assigned the AdapterView.OnItemClickListener.
The view parameter is the actual item (renderer) inside your ListView that has been clicked. This item is provided by your adapter's getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) method.
Also, you should use the equals method of String to check whether two String values are equal.
So this won't work:
if(sKraftstoffArt.getSelectedItem().toString() == "Diesel")
Use insetad
if (adapterView.getSelectedItem().toString().equals("Diesel"))
You might also want to add an else clause after this if, to hide the sPartikelfilterArt spinner when the selected item in the previous spinner is not "Diesel".
Please note, that every time you assign a new adapter to this list (which probably you don't, i still mention it just in case...), you should add the AdapterView.OnItemClickListener to it again.

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