Android Spinner: Get the selected item change event

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How can you set the event listener for a Spinner when the selected item changes?

Basically what I am trying to do is something similar to this:

spinner1.onSelectionChange = handleSelectionChange;

void handleSelectionChange(Object sender){
    //handle event
}
android-spinner spinner events android
17 Answers

For kotlin you can use:

spinner.onItemSelectedListener =  object : AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
    override fun onItemSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?, view: View?, position: Int, id: Long) {
        
    }

    override fun onNothingSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?) {
        
    }
}

Note: for parameters of onItemSelected method I use custom variable names

user_13307870 
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(
            new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {

                @Override
                public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                        int arg2, long arg3) {

                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                }

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

                }
                //add some code here
            }
        );
user_17747250

This will work intialize the spinner and findviewbyid and use this it will work 

    Spinner schemeStatusSpinner;

  schemeStatusSpinner = (Spinner) dialog.findViewById(R.id.spinner);

schemeStatusSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView, View selectedItemView, int position, long id) {
            // your code here
            if(schemeStatusSpinner.getSelectedItemId()==4){
                reasonll.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
            else {
                reasonll.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView) {
            // your code here
        }

    });
user_42427940

By default, you will get the first item of the spinner array through

value = spinner.getSelectedItem().toString();

whenever you selected the value in the spinner this will give you the selected value

if you want the position of the selected item then do it like that

pos = spinner.getSelectedItemPosition();

the above two answers are for without applying listener

user_72461420

The best way what I think would be to have an flagitemselected = 0; in onCreate(). And on item selected event increment that flag i.e flagitemselected++; and then check 

if(flagitemselected!=1)
{
// do your work here
}

This will help I guess.

user_10429650

I know this was long solved but I have a "Please select" string at the top of my string arrays. Then when you write the listener

yourspinner.onItemSelectedListener = object : OnItemSelectedListener {
            override fun onItemSelected(adapterView: AdapterView<*>?, view: View, i: Int, l: Long) {
                yourvalue = yourspinner.getSelectedItem().toString()

                when(yourvalue){
                    "Please Select" -> // DO nothing
                    else -> // Do something
                }
            }

            override fun onNothingSelected(adapterView: AdapterView<*>?) {
                return
            }
        }

You can of course extend the when statement to have different responses or actions.

user_44908250
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