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This document discusses several ways to add items to a spinner in Android. The top answers provide code samples to populate a spinner by: 1. Creating a string array and ArrayAdapter and setting the adapter to the spinner. 2. Adding items directly to an adapter and notifying it of changes. 3. Reading items from a JSON array and adding them to an adapter to assign to a spinner.

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How can I add items to a spinner in Android?

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How can I add items to a spinner?

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Asked
Mar 9 '11 at 5:16

Jazz

Michael Petrotta
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6 Answers

Edited
Mar 9 '11 at 5:19

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XML file:
<Spinner android:id="@+id/Spinner01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Java file:
public class SpinnerExample extends Activity {
private String[] arraySpinner;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

this.arraySpinner = new String[] {

"1", "2", "3", "4", "5"
};
Spinner s = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.Spinner01);
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, arraySpinner);
s.setAdapter(adapter);

See spinner example.

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frieza
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user3454984
23 5

Answered
Mar 9 '11 at 5:24

Edited
Feb 13 '15 at 5:44

While this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts
of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. Bill the Lizard Jan 26 '12 at 21:00

use this android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item in place of this

android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item it looks lot better sai Jun 4 '14 at 17:33

does not compile... ??? Lou Morda Dec 9 '14 at 8:58

What is array_spinner? name of the array is arraySpinner. is it spelling mistake or it has to be like that
only> SurajS Feb 3 '15 at 9:22

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I know this is an old question, but I've found another option in case anyone needs it:
spinner definition in the layout file
<Spinner android:id="@+id/spinner"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
android:prompt="@string/spin"
android:entries="@array/spinnerItems"
/>

Items definition in the file array.xml:

Link to the full source of the code

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maxivis
742 9

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Apr 15 '13 at 23:20

I tried all the methods above and a few other tutorials, but this i the only one that worked for me. Thank you so
much! snapplex Feb 7 '14 at 23:42

Glad to help you @snapplex ;) maxivis Feb 10 '14 at 23:36

This should be top answer. Clean. nobetw Apr 16 '15 at 0:41

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Try this Code...

final List<String> list=new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("Item 1");
list.add("Item 2");
list.add("Item 3");
list.add("Item 4");
list.add("Item 5");
final String[] str={"Report 1","Report 2","Report 3","Report 4","Report 5"};
final Spinner sp1= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
final Spinner sp2= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner2);
ArrayAdapter<String> adp1=new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,list);
adp1.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
sp1.setAdapter(adp1);
ArrayAdapter<String> adp2=new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,str);
adp2.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

You can also add spinner item value through String array xml file..
<resources>
<string name="app_name">Spinner_ex5</string>
<string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>
<string name="menu_settings">Settings</string>
<string name="title_activity_main">MainActivity</string>
<string-array name="str2">
<item>Data 1</item>
<item>Data 2</item>
<item>Data 3</item>
<item>Data 4</item>
<item>Data 5</item>
</string-array>
</resources>

In mainActivity.java :

final Spinner sp3= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner3);

ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adp3=ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
R.array.str2, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1);
adp3.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
sp3.setAdapter(adp3);
sp3.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener()
{
@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int position, long id) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String ss=sp3.getSelectedItem().toString();
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),ss , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show

();

}
@Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

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Balaji
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8 10

Name is Nilay
1,603 13

Answered
Jul 31 '12 at 0:40

Edited
Jul 31 '12 at 12:56

plus one for setting dropDownViewResource, thx! Lou Morda Nov 25 '14 at 19:39

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For adding item in Spinner, you can do one thing, try to create an adapter and then
add/remove items into the adapter, then you can easily bind that adapter to spinner by
using setAdapter() method.
Here is an example:
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
adapter.add(item1);
adapter.add(item2);
adapter.add(item3);
adapter.add(item4);
adapter.add(item5);
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

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Paresh Mayani
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180 235

Answered
Mar 9 '11 at 6:01

thanx for ur reply i got the solution also now i am facing one problem on it. Jazz Mar 9 '11 at 8:03

I want to fetch the selected item of spinner i.e its position as further i want to pass it to other method see what
i did... dataspin.setOnItemSelectedListener(new myitemlistener()); Jazz Mar 9 '11 at 8:06
dataspin is my Spinner object Jazz Mar 9 '11 at 8:07
@Override public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) { // TODO Autogenerated method stub String p=parent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString(); int pos=(int)
parent.getItemIdAtPosition(position); System.out.println("position of spinner..."+pos); setSearchView(pos); }
Jazz Mar 9 '11 at 8:08
if i do this than spinner item is not displaying Jazz Mar 9 '11 at 8:09

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This code basically reads a JSON array object and convert each row into an option in
the spinner that is passed as a parameter:
public ArrayAdapter<String> getArrayAdapterFromArrayListForSpinner(ArrayList<JSONObject>
aArrayList, String aField)
{
ArrayAdapter<String> aArrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(context, android.R.layout.si
mple_spinner_item);
aArrayAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.multiline_spinner_dropdown_item); //and
roid.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item
try {
for (int i = 0; i < aArrayList.size(); i++)
{
aArrayAdapter.add(aArrayList.get(i).getString(aField));
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
ShowMessage("Error while reading the JSON list");
}
return aArrayAdapter;
}

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EASI
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4 29 76

add a spinner to xml layout then add this code to java file :

Answered
Apr 15 '13 at 23:24

Spinner spinner;
spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1) ;
java.util.ArrayList<String> strings = new java.util.ArrayList<>();
strings.add("Mobile") ;
strings.add("Home");
strings.add("Work");
SpinnerAdaptor snprAdapter = new SpinnerAdaptor(AddMember.this,R.layout.support_simple_s
pinner_dropdown_item , strings);
spinner.setAdapter(snprAdapter);

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Hossein
106 1

Answered
Apr 14 '14 at 20:34

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