How to Set Selected Item of Spinner by Value, Not by Position

How to set selected item of Spinner by value, not by position?

Suppose your Spinner is named mSpinner, and it contains as one of its choices: "some value".

To find and compare the position of "some value" in the Spinner use this:

String compareValue = "some value";
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.select_state, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
mSpinner.setAdapter(adapter);
if (compareValue != null) {
    int spinnerPosition = adapter.getPosition(compareValue);
    mSpinner.setSelection(spinnerPosition);
}

How to set selected item of Spinner by value, not by position

You have to take one more string array for selected country respective value :

<string-array name="country">
   <item>India</item>
</string-array>

<string-array name="country_value">
  <item>91</item>
</string-array>

Initialize value array :

String[] countryValue = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.country_value);

Get spinner selected item respective value from value array:

selectionarea = countryValue[position];

Check Example : accessing item name in string-array (Android)

Set selected spinner item based on a name, not a position in Android

All you can do is identifying the position of the item in the spinner and the setting the selection of spinner.

int pos=yourlist.indexOf("2000");

spinner.setSelection(pos);

Edit:

ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList( Arrays.asList(getResources().getStringArray(R.array.years)) );  // your array id of string resource
int pos= list.indexOf("2000");
spinner.setSelection(pos);

To set selected item of Spinner by value, returns -1

int a = adapter.getPosition(b); 

replace adapter with adapter1 in the above line, because you have initialized adapter as "adapter1"

Set selected item of spinner programmatically

Use the following:
spinnerObject.setSelection(INDEX_OF_CATEGORY2).

Android Spinner: Set selected item as default

You can use SharedPreferences to store the selection the first time that the user selects a country, and then use SharedPreferences again for the app to remember the selection, when the user returns a second time.

To store the selection in a SharedPrefence:

SharedPreferences.Editor editor = getPreferences(0).edit();
int selectedPosition = yourSpinner.getSelectedItemPosition();
editor.putInt("spinnerSelection", selectedPosition);
editor.apply();

To load the selection onto the spinner when reusing the app:

SharedPreferences prefs = getPreferences(0);
yourSpinner.setSelection(prefs.getInt("spinnerSelection",0));

Hope this solves your issue :)

How to set Spinner Default by its Value instead of Position?

Finally, i solved the problem by using following way, in which the position of the spinner can be get by its string

private int getPostiton(String locationid,Cursor cursor)
{
    int i;
    cursor.moveToFirst(); 
    for(i=0;i< cursor.getCount()-1;i++)
    {  

        String locationVal = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(RoadMoveDataBase.LT_LOCATION));  
        if(locationVal.equals(locationid))
        { 
            position = i+1;  
            break;
        }
        else
        {
            position = 0;
        }
        cursor.moveToNext();  
    } 

Calling the method

    Spinner location2 = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
    int location2id = getPostiton(cursor.getString(3),cursor);
    location2.setSelection(location2id);

I hope it will help for some one..

How to set selected item for Spinner in Android

You can do similar to the following. I am just giving you an idea here.

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                 parent.setSelection(position + 1);  
            }

            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {

            }
        });

how to set selection on spinner based on ID, not index or position

oke I had to do the same thing what i did is made an extra int called SpinnerPosition and added that to my model (like your Message class)

then did something like this:

 spinner1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
            int pos, long id) {
        Message mSelected = mSelected.setSpinnerPosition(pos);
        Log.i("Id:", mSelected.getId());

    }
}

so now you can do something like (if you get the id from somewhere)

ArrayAdapter myAdap = (ArrayAdapter) spinner1.getAdapter();
         if (Message.getID() == id) {
        previousSelected = Message.getSpinnerPosition();
        int spinnerPosition = myAdap.previousSelected;
        spinner1.setSelection(spinnerPosition);
}

i quickly wrote the code so it probably is going to have some mistakes but I hope get get the idea behind it

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