I want to display as "Please Select" in Spinner before selecting a value. After selecting a value it should disappear

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I'm using Spinner to select a value from the drop down menu. I want initially to be displayed as "Please Select", after selecting a value it should disappear. I'm using the following code,

UPanelID = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, data);
dataAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
UPanelID.setAdapter(dataAdapter);
UPanelID.setOnItemSelectedListener(typeSelectedListener);

data is a String array

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 13 '13 at 08:21

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You can do this by setting android:prompt="Please Select" attribute in Spinner in your xml file.

Or, you can see following example for making the first item in the Spinner "Please Select":

http://b2creativedesigns.comuv.com/Spinner.html

edited Jan 13 '13 at 08:21

Gaffi

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answered Jan 09 '13 at 05:14

ρяσѕρєя K

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 09 '13 at 05:16

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Here I am just adding the Please Select to the new array. This may be helpful to you

    String[] newarr= new String[data.length+1];
    newarr[0] = "Please select";
    for(int i=1;i<newarr.length;i++)
    {
        newarr[i] = data[i-1];
    }
    UPanelID = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
    ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, newarr);
    dataAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    UPanelID.setAdapter(dataAdapter);
    UPanelID.setOnItemSelectedListener(typeSelectedListener);

answered Jan 09 '13 at 05:16

Ram kiran Pachigolla

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After selecting an value it should be removed from the list. I hope this is not an correct way. – Krishna Jan 09 '13 at 05:22
ok.after selecting the value then you can set adapter to the spinner again. – Ram kiran Pachigolla Jan 09 '13 at 05:24
but why to display like this. if user doesn't want to set spinner again. there must be select at top right – Ram kiran Pachigolla Jan 09 '13 at 05:25

I want to display as "Please Select" in Spinner before selecting a value. After selecting a value it should disappear

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