Perform an action on spinner opening

Question

My problem is the following : at the moment I have a spinner called "projects" that I am populating in my code, but for some reasons I need to add it a title so I just do it using my adapter :

adapter.add("Choose a project");

Now I would like to remove it (via adapter.remove, this is not a problem) when the spinner in my activity is clicked (when it's opening), but the only method i am able to find is onItemSelected, which is not what I'm looking for.

Is there such thing as a onOpenListener or onClickListener for Spinner to actually execute some code when the spinner is opened, and not only when an item is selected ??

Thank you

it would be helpful if you posted your listener code as well. — MByD, Apr 11 '11 at 21:12
He doesn't have a listener. Does the spinner support an onOpenListener or onClickListener is his question. — Marshall Davis, Aug 02 '11 at 15:18
See question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3523078/is-there-a-way-to-use-setonclicklistener-with-an-android-spinner — Marshall Davis, Aug 02 '11 at 17:01
A new (working) solution is available here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8520801/406090 — OferR, Dec 15 '11 at 13:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '11 at 21:12

This is probably because you are trying to call it inside the listener which is probably an anonymous class. Assuming your activity's class name is MyActivity use MyActivity.this.someactivitymethod where someactivitymethod is the method that you want to execute.

Marshall Davis · Answer 2 · 2011-08-02T15:34:13.180

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Spinner inherits from AbsSpinner which in turn inherits from AdapterView, which means it inherits the setOnClickListener method from AdapterView and this can be used to perform an action on clicking the spinner.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AdapterView.html#setOnClickListener(android.view.View.OnClickListener)

EDIT: While this is true, it throws a runtime exception. Sorry.

edited Aug 02 '11 at 15:34

answered Aug 02 '11 at 15:22

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