SPINNER control for Android UI

These days, as part of my side project, I have started working with Android. There was a requirement to show type of travel (business, economy, tourist, etc.,) basis for the customer who is awaiting to check-in into our clients hotel.

Android gives us a simple spinner item that can be quickly built and used. Below is the sample. For the sake of the sample, i have hard coded the location names, instead of picking up from SQLlite.


for my MainActivity.xml, i have made it implement  AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener .

Then, defined the spinner and its dataset
        //to read the spinner element
        Spinner spinner =(Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
        // Spinner Drop down elements
        List<String> categories = new ArrayList<String>();
        categories.add("Business");
        categories.add("Family trip");
        categories.add("back packing tourist");
        categories.add("delegation visitor");
        categories.add("Other Tourism ");


Then, i have set the Adaptor details for the ArrayList and the spinner to bind together.

// Creating adapter for spinner
        ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
                                    (this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, categories);

       // Drop down layout style
       dataAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

   // attaching data adapter to spinner
       spinner.setAdapter(dataAdapter);



Override the methods for onItemSelected

 @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long id) {
        // On selecting a spinner item
        String item = adapterView.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();

        // Showing selected spinner item
        Toast.makeText(adapterView.getContext(), "Selected: " + item, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

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

    }

here is the out come of the code in the emulator.