Spinners - custom input

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I am new to making android apps and was trying to find out if there is a way for a user to add their own custom selections to a Spinner.
For example I want to make a database for keeping track of car maintenance.
So I want the user to be able to add/remove their own cars/trucks as needed to it.

If there is a better way to do this I am open to any suggestions.
I am using eclipse.

Thanks for any help in this matter.

Yes you can do this. Goodluck – Blundell Jul 12 '13 at 22:34 — Blundell, Jul 12 '13 at 22:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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So two ways to do this,

First off since you are using a database I would look at using a SimpleCursorAdapter or a Loader to manage the connection and updates to the db, so you don't manually have to refresh the query, and use a SimpleCursorAdapter to power the spinner like this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/11216746/418505

Or, you could programmatically query the database and then use some UI event hook, like a button click to submit the new car/truck to then update whatever Adapter you have bound to the spinner (make sure you call notifyDataSetChanged)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Jul 12 '13 at 22:37

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ok thank you I will look into that. Like I said I'm new to all this so I will definitely have to read up on that. Still learning what half these words mean lol – Jason Jul 13 '13 at 00:33

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