Spinner with empty default selected item

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I'm trying to create a spinner with default empty selected item, but it displays the first item from the choices of spinner. If I add null value to my string, which is the source of choices in spinner, then after opening spinner that empty row is displayed. How should I do it? Here's code I'm using:

  String[] ch = {"Session1", "Session2", "Session3"};
  Spinner sp = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
  TextView sess_name = findViewById(R.id.sessname);
  ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,ch);
  sp.setAdapter(adapter);

  adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

  sp.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener({
      @Override
      public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
          int index = arg0.getSelectedItemPosition();
          sess_name.setText(ch[index]);

          Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "You have selected item : " + ch[index], Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
      }
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