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I am working on an android project and I am using a spinner which is populated manually. For example if, in the spinner I have the following items:

select

Category 1

Category 2

Category 3

Initially the spinner value is select now i selected category 2 How would I programmatically make Category 2 as the default value for next session(opening the app next time). Thank you.

Vijaya Varma Lanke
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In the first session you save the selected index in a SharedPreferences: 

PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).edit().putInt("srIndex",spinner.getSelectedItemPosition());

And in the second session you read the saved index and set it to the spinner:

spinner.setSelection(PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).getInt("srIndex",0));
Luca Ziegler
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  • could you please tell me in detail about srIndex and where i add this code, is it after spinner.setAdapter(dataAdapter); – Vijaya Varma Lanke Apr 13 '16 at 09:14
  • Call the first line when the app is closed (onPause / onStop). And the second line after initializing the Spinner (after setAdapter). "srIndex" is the name of the saved index. – Luca Ziegler Apr 13 '16 at 09:20
  • any where we can close the app, that means i have to add that in every class in my project, could you please clarify me – Vijaya Varma Lanke Apr 13 '16 at 09:46
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If you know the position of "Category 2" you can do the item below. You can get the index from the adapter.

spinner.setSelection(indexOfCategory2);
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You can use SharedPreferences to save the index of selected category and every time activity is loaded retrieve the index from SharedPreferences and set selection

Spinner.setSelection(index);

If you not aware of SharedPreferences you can refer to StackOverflow

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