Why can't one add/remove items from an ArrayAdapter?

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I am using an ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> to populate the items to list in a android.widget.Spinner. That works all fine.

But now I want to keep the list of items dynamic, i.e. I want to be able to add/remove items from the selection list at runtime. However, when I call adapter.add(item) or adapter.remove(item) I always get a UnsupportedOperationException, even though the Javadocs of the ArrayAdapter class describe these two methods as to be usable for exactly that intended purpose.

Is this a bug, really not implemented or what am I missing here?

android-2.2-froyo android-widget android
8 Answers

Probably, you are using List in your ArrayAdapter class instead of ArrayList.

Try converting your array or list to ArrayList -

new ArrayList<ClassType>(Arrays.asList(array));
user_66196350

You can try like this:

new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(recentlyClient))

Example code how to implement:

String[] recentlyClient;

ArrayAdapter<String> recenAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(MainActivity.this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(recentlyClient)));
user_71932820

My nightmare was removing items from the ArrayAdapter<String>. I have been avoiding this method for almost 6 years because of this phenomenon :(

My Adapter was been:

 private class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
    private final Context context;
    private final Bitmap[] slike;
    private final String[] nazivi;
    private final String[] grad_freq;
    private final boolean[] omiljeni;

    MyAdapter (Context c, Bitmap[] slike, String[] nazivi, String[] grad_freq, boolean[] omiljeni) {
        super(c, R.layout.row, R.id.textView1, nazivi);
        this.context = c;
        this.slike = slike;
        this.nazivi = nazivi;
        this.grad_freq= grad_freq;
        this.omiljeni = omiljeni;
    }
// ...
}

And now, it look like:

 private class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
    private final Context context;
    private final ArrayList<Bitmap> slike;
    private final ArrayList<String> nazivi;
    private final ArrayList<String> grad_freq;
    private final ArrayList<Boolean> omiljeni;

    MyAdapter (Context c, ArrayList<Bitmap> slike, ArrayList<String> nazivi, ArrayList<String> grad_freq, ArrayList<Boolean> omiljeni) {
        super(c, R.layout.row, R.id.textView1, nazivi);
        this.context = c;
        this.slike = slike;
        this.nazivi = nazivi;
        this.grad_freq= grad_freq;
        this.omiljeni = omiljeni;
    }
// ...
}

Of course, after deleting the desired items, be sure to call:

adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

Thanks for answers here.

user_18994400
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