Android Spinner : Avoid onItemSelected calls during initialization

Question

I created an Android application with a `Spinner` and a `TextView`. I want to display the selected item from the Spinner's drop down list in the TextView. I implemented the Spinner in the `onCreate` method so when I'm running the program, it shows a value in the `TextView` (before selecting an item from the drop down list). I want to show the value in the TextView only after selecting an item from the drop down list. How do I do this? Here is my code: ``` import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.AdapterView; import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.Spinner; import android.widget.TextView; public class GPACal01Activity extends Activity implements OnItemSelectedListener { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); Spinne…

Accepted Answer

```
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this); // Will call onItemSelected() Listener.
```

So first time handle this with any Integer value

Example: Initially Take `int check = 0;`

```
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int pos,long id) {
   if(++check > 1) {
      TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
      String str = (String) parent.getItemAtPosition(pos);
      textView.setText(str);
   }
}
```

You can do it with boolean value and also by checking current and previous positions. See here

Android Spinner : Avoid onItemSelected calls during initialization

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