How do you get the selected value of a Spinner?

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I am trying to get the selected items string out of a Spinner. So far I have gotten this:

bundle.putString(ListDbAdapter.DB_PRI, v.getText().toString());

This does not work and gives a class casting exception (I thought I could cast a View to a widget that inherits it. Obviously not!) So how do you get the selected value of a Spinner?

score 74 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 01 '13 at 05:56

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To get the selected value of a spinner you can follow this example.

Create a nested class that implements AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener. This will provide a callback method that will notify your application when an item has been selected from the Spinner.

Within "onItemSelected" method of that class, you can get the selected item:

public class YourItemSelectedListener implements OnItemSelectedListener {

    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
        String selected = parent.getItemAtPosition(pos).toString();
    }

    public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView parent) {
        // Do nothing.
    }
}

Finally, your ItemSelectedListener needs to be registered in the Spinner:

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new MyOnItemSelectedListener());

edited Feb 01 '13 at 05:56

Akhil Jain

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answered Apr 16 '10 at 11:49

jalopaba

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Thanks, this looks great! By nested do you mean in another method (eg onCreate of a new view)? – Matthew Hall Apr 16 '10 at 11:56
You are welcome. Nested classes: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/nested.html – jalopaba Apr 16 '10 at 12:20
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Or if you merely want to read the value from the spinner later, you can avoid all that code and do `mySpinner.getSelectedItem().toString()`. – ToolmakerSteve Sep 22 '14 at 23:17
But then how do use this value from within other methods? – erical Jun 07 '16 at 19:15

score 55 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '10 at 11:52

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You have getSelectedXXX methods from the AdapterView class from which the Spinner derives:

getSelectedItem()

getSelectedItemPosition()

getSelectedItemId()

answered Apr 16 '10 at 11:52

Rich

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score 46 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 22 '15 at 16:38

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Simply use this:

spinner.getItemAtPosition(spinner.getSelectedItemPosition()).toString();

This will give you the String of the selected item in the Spinner.

edited Dec 22 '15 at 16:38

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answered Feb 13 '12 at 11:12

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I'm upvoting this solution because the accepted answer seems excessive if the goal is simply to get the selected value from the Spinner. – ashack Jun 26 '13 at 14:16
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`fields.getSelectedItem().toString()` is a shorter equivalent. – ToolmakerSteve Sep 22 '14 at 23:14

score 16 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 03 '12 at 11:30

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mySpinner.getItemAtPosition(mySpinner.getSelectedItemPosition()) works based on Rich's description.

edited Sep 03 '12 at 11:30

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answered Aug 14 '11 at 19:33

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`mySpinner.getSelectedItem()` is a shorter equivalent. Then append `.toString()` to get it as a string. – ToolmakerSteve Sep 22 '14 at 23:14

score 5 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 09 '11 at 18:52

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Depends ay which point you wish to "catch" the value.

For instance, if you want to catch the value as soon as the user changes the spinner selected item, use the listener approach (provided by jalopaba)

If you rather catch the value when a user performs the final task like clicking a Submit button, or something, then the answer provided by Rich is better.

edited Nov 09 '11 at 18:52

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answered Nov 17 '10 at 11:51

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 07:03

This is another way:

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                int pos, long arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

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

        }
    });

score 1 · Answer 7 · edited Jan 17 '18 at 05:37

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To get just the string value within the spinner use the following:

spinner.getSelectedItem().toString();

edited Jan 17 '18 at 05:37

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answered Sep 29 '15 at 15:47

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 19 '17 at 17:04

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Spinner spinner=(Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinnername);
String valueinString = spinner.getSelectedItem().toString();

In Case Spinner values are int the typecast it to int

int valueinInt=(int)(spinner.getSelectedItem());

answered Jun 19 '17 at 17:04

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 10 '22 at 07:31

Useful code/syntax to simply get the selected index/value and assign it to a sutiable variable;

int i = ((Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinnerDistance)).getSelectedItemPosition();
String s = ((Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinnerDistance)).getSelectedItem().toString();

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