Get the position of a spinner in Android

Question

I'm trying to get the position (number) of the spinner when selected to use it in another Activity that will display a different map each time depending on the item selected. when I run the application it crashes. this is the first Activity code:

public class TestProjectActivity extends Activity {
    public Spinner spinner1;
    public Integer number;
    private Button valideButton;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        MySpinner();
        valide_button();

    }

    public void MySpinner() {

        final Spinner spinner1 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);

        ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
                this, R.array.num, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
                                      adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner1.setAdapter(adapter);

        spinner1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView,
                    View selectedItemView, int position, long id) {
                // Object item = parentView.getItemAtPosition(position);

                TestProjectActivity.this.number = spinner1
                        .getSelectedItemPosition() + 1;

            }

            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {// do nothing
            }

        });

    }

    public void valide_button() {

        valideButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.valide_button);
        valideButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {

                Intent intent = new Intent(TestProjectActivity.this,
                        MetroMapActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);
            }

        });

    }

}

Answer 1

The way to get the selection of the spinner is:

  spinner1.getSelectedItemPosition();

Documentation reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AdapterView.html#getSelectedItemPosition()

However, in your code, the one place you are referencing it is within your setOnItemSelectedListener(). It is not necessary to poll the spinner, because the onItemSelected method gets passed the position as the "position" variable.

So you could change that line to:

TestProjectActivity.this.number = position + 1;

If that does not fix the problem, please post the error message generated when your app crashes.