Getting text from spinner

Question

placeSpinner.getSelectedItem().toString();

so I'm using this coding lines to get the text from my spinner and pass it on to another java file. But the application keeps giving me a force close whenever I do this.

How can I resolve this error?

Thank you so much.

what you want to do? want to get the selected item text from spinner or want to pass selected item name to another java file ???? — Paresh Mayani, Jul 21 '10 at 09:10
Possible duplicate of [Android: problems with getSelectedItem on a spinner](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29961987/android-problems-with-getselecteditem-on-a-spinner) — Submersed, Jul 31 '18 at 22:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '12 at 07:44

I hope it will helpful to you.

Try this Code...

Here i store the index and value of selected spinner into SharedPreferences

private SharedPreferences prefs;
private String prefName = "spinn";

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 Spinner sp1= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
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);

sp1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener()
{

    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                    int position, long id) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    int pos1=position;
    String str1=sp1.getSelectedItem().toString();

    prefs = getSharedPreferences(prefName, MODE_PRIVATE);
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = prefs.edit();

    //---save the values in the EditText view to preferences---
    editor.putInt("index", pos1);
    editor.putString("value", str1);

    //---saves the values---
    editor.commit();

    }

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

    }

});

To get that value into another java file, inside that java file write below code where ever you need it..

        prefs = getSharedPreferences(prefName, MODE_PRIVATE);
        int pos=prefs.getInt("index", (Integer) null);
        String value=prefs.getString("value", "");

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '14 at 07:06

Try this code : set adapter to the spinnerName as:

spinnerName=(Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinnerName);
    String []data={"item1","item2","item3","item4","item5"};
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, data);
    spinnerName.setAdapter(adapter);

Now set setOnItemSelectedListener to spinnerName.

spinnerName.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), spinnerName.getSelectedItem().toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();


            Intent intent=new Intent(FirstActivity.this,SecondActivity.class);
             //  pass value of selected spinnerItem to other Activity.
            intent.putExtra("spinnerItem", spinnerName.getSelectedItem().toString());

            startActivity(intent);
        }

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

        }
    });

Thiago · Answer 3 · 2014-12-10T07:44:09.850

Sorry, I posted it wrong. Pls try this.

String []data={"item1","item2","item3","item4","item5"};

spinner.setAdapter(adaptador);
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(
    new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent,
            android.view.View v, int position, long id) {
                mData.setText("Selected: " + data[position]);
        }

        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
            mData.setText("");
        }
});

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 31 '18 at 08:26

0

Use this:

final String text = ((YourAdapter) spinner.getAdapter()).getItem(spinner.getSelectedItemPosition());

answered Aug 31 '18 at 08:26

Lan Nguyen

785
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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 04 '18 at 04:18

0

This should work:

@Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                        int position, long id) { 
    String value = (TextView)view.getText().toString();
    }

answered Dec 04 '18 at 04:18

Vikash Bijarniya

404
4
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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered May 11 '15 at 13:40

    final Equipamento[] eqptos = eqptoDao.list();

    List<String> labels = new ArrayList<String>();
    for(Equipamento eqpto : eqptos)
    {
        labels.add(eqpto.getDescricao());
    }

    ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
            android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,labels);

    dataAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

    spinner.setAdapter(dataAdapter);

    //to get value of spinner

    eqptos[Integer.parseInt("" + spinner.getSelectedItemId())].getEquipamento()

Getting text from spinner

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