android spinner example

Example 1: spinner android

// Spinner element
      Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
      
      // Spinner click listener
      spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
      
      // Spinner Drop down elements
      List<String> categories = new ArrayList<String>();
      categories.add("Automobile");
      categories.add("Business Services");
      categories.add("Computers");
      categories.add("Education");
      categories.add("Personal");
      categories.add("Travel");
      
      // Creating adapter for spinner
      ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, categories);
      
      // Drop down layout style - list view with radio button
      dataAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
      
      // attaching data adapter to spinner
      spinner.setAdapter(dataAdapter);

Example 2: implement spinner in android kotlin

package net.androidly.androidspinnerkotlin

import android.content.Context
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import android.view.Gravity
import android.view.View
import android.widget.*
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.*

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {


    var languages = arrayOf("Java", "PHP", "Kotlin", "Javascript", "Python", "Swift")
    val NEW_SPINNER_ID = 1

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)


        var aa = ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, languages)
        aa.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item)

        with(mySpinner)
        {
            adapter = aa
            setSelection(0, false)
            onItemSelectedListener = this@MainActivity
            prompt = "Select your favourite language"
            gravity = Gravity.CENTER

        }

        val spinner = Spinner(this)
        spinner.id = NEW_SPINNER_ID

        val ll = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)

        ll.setMargins(10, 40, 10, 10)
        linearLayout.addView(spinner)

        aa = ArrayAdapter(this, R.layout.spinner_right_aligned, languages)
        aa.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.spinner_right_aligned)

        with(spinner)
        {
            adapter = aa
            setSelection(0, false)
            onItemSelectedListener = this@MainActivity
            layoutParams = ll
            prompt = "Select your favourite language"
            setPopupBackgroundResource(R.color.material_grey_600)

        }

    }

    override fun onNothingSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?) {
        showToast(message = "Nothing selected")
    }

    override fun onItemSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?, view: View?, position: Int, id: Long) {

        when (view?.id) {
            1 -> showToast(message = "Spinner 2 Position:${position} and language: ${languages[position]}")
            else -> {
                showToast(message = "Spinner 1 Position:${position} and language: ${languages[position]}")
            }
        }
    }

    private fun showToast(context: Context = applicationContext, message: String, duration: Int = Toast.LENGTH_LONG) {
        Toast.makeText(context, message, duration).show()
    }
}

Example 3: how to set list data to android spinner

// setting branch data in manually and load to spBranchName
        List<String> branchList = new ArrayList<>();
        branchList.add("CHITTAGONG");
        branchList.add("DHAKA");

        ArrayAdapter<String> branchListAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(getActivity(),
                android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, branchList);
        branchListAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spBranchName.setAdapter(branchListAdapter);

Example 4: how to access a spinner from another activity in android

First save the position of selected data from spinner in a String variable,

int positionOfSelectedDataFromSpinner;

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {

    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
       positionOfSelectedDataFromSpinner= position;
}
Then on button click send intent to Another activity with putExtra

Intent i = new Intent (this, activity2.class);

i.putExtra("position", positionOfSelectedDataFromSpinner);
startActivity(i);
get int from getIntent in another activity

Intent intent = getIntent();
int positionToShowToSpinner = intent.getStringExtra("position");
then set the position to spinner

spinner.setSelection(positionToShowToSpinner);
I think this my solve your problem.

Example 5: how to set current item for spinner android

val b: List<Int> = a.mapIndexed { i, b -> if (b) i else null }.filterNotNull().toList()

spinnerObject.setSelection(b.get(0))