Using entryValues with Spinner element

Question

I create a Spinner element inside of my LinearLayout. I want to make values different from visible. I don't want to do that programmatically. I want to use arrays that below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <string-array name="select">
        <item>a</item>
        <item>b</item>
        <item>c</item>
    </string-array>

    <integer-array name="selectValues">
        <item>1</item>
        <item>2</item>
        <item>3</item>
    </integer-array>

</resources>

Simply. If a selected item, I want to get 1 as integer. What's the way?

 <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/sSelect"
        android:layout_width="179dp"
        android:layout_height="60dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:entries="@array/select"
        android:entryValues="@array/selectValues" />

When I use above with below.

public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> item, View arg1, int sort,
            long arg3) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        String selectedItem = item.getItemAtPosition(sort).toString();
}

I just can get data as string and not values. I can get values that visible.

possible duplicate of [Android - configure Spinner to use array](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1587028/android-configure-spinner-to-use-array) — naXa stands with Ukraine, Dec 08 '14 at 10:00

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '13 at 19:24

14

Keep the selected values as a TypedArray and access those in onItemSelected() method.

// Keep the selected values as TypedArray
Resources res = getResources();
final TypedArray selectedValues = res
        .obtainTypedArray(R.array.selectValues);

Spinner spinner = ((Spinner) findViewById(R.id.sSelect));
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
            int position, long id) {
        //Get the selected value
        int selectedValue = selectedValues.getInt(position, -1);
        Log.d("demo", "selectedValues = " + selectedValue);
    }

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

    }
});

answered Sep 26 '13 at 19:24

imranhasanhira

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Can you let me know about Resources and getResources function? – Yusuf Ali Sep 27 '13 at 05:40
[`getResources()`](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#getResources()) is a method you can access from any activity class. – imranhasanhira Sep 27 '13 at 06:11
Can you show the corresponding logcat data with your that part of code ? – imranhasanhira Sep 27 '13 at 06:20
I have posted here.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19043710/getting-unfortunately-has-stopped-error-when-using-resources – Yusuf Ali Sep 27 '13 at 06:21

Using entryValues with Spinner element

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