Android Spinner: Get the selected item change event

android, android-spinner, events, spinner

Solution

Some of the previous answers are not correct. They work for other widgets and views, but the documentation for the Spinner widget clearly states:

A spinner does not support item click events. Calling this method will raise an exception.

Better use OnItemSelectedListener() instead:

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView, View selectedItemView, int position, long id) {
        // your code here
    }

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

});

This works for me.

Note that onItemSelected method is also invoked when the view is being build, so you can consider putting it inside `onCreate()` method call.

Problem

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 } ```

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