Setting the position within a spinner - android

Good Afternoon,
I have a spinner array containing 3 spinners. Each spinner is populated via a res string array. Each array contains the numbers 1-100. When the activity starts each spinner contains a string array of 1-100 and when you click on a spinner the first choice is 1.
Say a user picks 25 on the first spinner. I'd like the 2nd spinner to show 25 as the starting point for scrolling when the spinner is clicked but not fire the spinner. The 2nd spinner would still contain the array 1-100 though so a user could scroll down to a lessor number if the wanted to.
I've tried using setSelection but that causes the 2nd spinner to fire causing undesirable effects (an edit box is populated with the 2nd number even though the user hasn't clicked the 2nd spinner). I would like the 2nd spinner to just show 25 as the starting point.
How do I do this?

setSelection() is the only way I know, it shouldn't be the cause for the issue.
In my case I have:
Spinner spinner = new Spinner(getApplicationContext());
spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
//search for the position that we need to move to,
//the spinner has an array adapter set to it
int recordInPreferences = WidgetProvider.settings.getInt("SpinnerChoice", 0);
int counter = -1;
do {
counter++;
} while (
counter < getResources().getIntArray(R.array.stringofvalues).length &&
getResources().getIntArray(R.array.stringofvalues)[counter] != recordInPreferences
);
spinner.setSelection(counter, true);
I do this consequentially for several spinners one after the other and it works well.

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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
}

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I have currently though a different query, I have in my code a user input for an int and I want my spinner to populate with numbers up to the user selected number. So if the user enters the number '5' it is saved to an int variable. I then want the Spinner to show 1,2,3,4,5 as choices.
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Thanks, Oli
Edited
Below is a basic example of how you would add Integers to your spinner :
mspin=(Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
Integer[] items = new Integer[]{1,2,3,4};
ArrayAdapter<Integer> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<Integer>(this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, items);
mspin.setAdapter(adapter);
You can refer to this and make changes in your project as per your logic. Also in your case you should use an ArrayList of integers since the number of choice of the user seems to be dynamic. you can create an arraylist and replace in for the Integer array in the above code.
Hope this helps!!

Retrieve position of item within Spinner made up from String.xml array

I am working on an android project and have a spinner which contains items from a string-array which is in the string.xml file.
In the strings.xml I have the following array
<string-array name="array_loginType">
<item>Select Login Type</item>
<item>Website</item>
<item>App</item>
<item>Other</item>
</string-array>
and the spinner contains the following XML
<Spinner android:id="#+id/add_cboLoginType"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:prompt="#string/add_select_login_type"
android:padding="4dp"
android:entries="#array/array_loginType"/>
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If you know what position in the array holds the correct selection, you can just use the Spinner.setSelection();-method to set the spinner to display it.
In your example, the Website is found in position 1 of the array (1st actual entry is number 0).
Therefore, your code should look something like this:
// Declare the spinner object
Spinner mySpinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.add_cboLoginType);
// Set the correct selection
mySpinner.setSelection(1, true);
The second argument tells the spinner to "animate" the selection - so it actually displays the correct selection, and not just sets the correct value (if it's set to false or not included at all, the spinner will have changed (so anything depending on the selection will work as intended) but it'll still appear to be at the default selection).
So you want to have the user select a type and save it with some other data in a database and when the user tries to edit that data you want to edit screen to have a preselected spinner, correct?
First you need a OnItemClickListener. This will let you know when the user selects something:
Spinner spin = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.add_cboLoginType);
spin.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(final AdapterView<?> parent, final View view,
final int position, final long id) {
// update the type field on the data object you are creating or editing
// position is the type index
obj.setTypeIndex(position);
}
}
);
That is how you see the change, now to pre-select is in edit mode:
//editMode boolean.. why not
if (editMode) {
spin.setSelection(obj.getTypeIndex, true);
}

How to change the entry of a spinner in code (Android)

Hi I have a spinner for which I would like to change its entry. I have created an array in the values folder. I know that I can edit the entry of the spinner by right clicking on it. But I want to know, how can I change the entry of the spinner using code. I was hoping there would be something like spinner5.editEntries
Can someone help please?
Spinner Spinnermiles = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.Spinnermiles);
String [] arrmile ={"5","10","20","30","40","50","70","80","90","100"};
adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(Searching.this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,arrmile);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
Spinnermiles.setAdapter(adapter);
If you want to change item in spinner at position 3 (which is "30" in example),
Set value at that position e.g.
arrmile[3] = "enter new value you want";
and after that call
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
then value at that position will be get updated.

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I have a ListView that uses a custom layout that has 5 child View objects (4 TextView and 1 CheckBox) in the custom layout. Only the TextViews are bound, however - the CheckBox has no corresponding field in the database. The purpose of the CheckBox is simply to identify which of the items being displayed I would like to process in "the next step". I'm using a custom ViewBinder to assign the text values correctly (because some of the values from the DB are dates, etc).
Part of the user interface is three buttons - 'All', 'None', and 'Invert' that I use to toggle the status of each item in the list. For the 'All' button, for example, I do this with the following code (which I now know is NOT correct - I include it to show what I'm trying to do):
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ListView lv = getListView();
int iCount = la.getCount();
for(int i=0; i<iCount; i++)
{
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