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How to change second spinner array when selecting in first spinner android


I have two spinners, when I select first spinner, based on first spinner selection, second spinner arrays to get change.How to do that.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
    <string-array name="type">
        <item>Select Type</item>
        <item >Color</item>
        <item >Weeks</item>
      </string-array>

    <string-array name="color">
        <item>Blue</item>
        <item >Orange</item>
        <item >Red</item>
        <item >Green</item>
       </string-array>

     <string-array name="weeks">
        <item>Sunday</item>
        <item >Monday</item>
        <item >Tuesday</item>
        <item >Wednesday</item>
              </string-array>

</resources>

  <TextView
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="Select Type:"/>

  <Spinner
  android:id="@+id/spinner"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:prompt="@string/spinner_title"
  android:drawSelectorOnTop = "true"/>


    <Spinner
    android:id="@+id/spinner1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:prompt="@string/spinner_title1"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
            this, R.array.type, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);

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

In this two spinners, in first spinner, i have used "type", based on the selection of type of first spinner, how to change second spinner to use the array color and weeks?

Thanks in advance


Solution

  • in first spinner OnItemSelectedListener do below way..

    spinner1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
    
                public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parentView,
                        View selectedItemView, int position, long id) {
                    // Object item = parentView.getItemAtPosition(position);
    
                    // Depend on first spinner value set adapter to 2nd spinner
                if(pos == 1){
                  spinner2.setAdapter(adapter2);
                }else{
                  spinner2.setAdapter(adapter3);
                } 
    
                }
    
                public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {// do nothing
                }
    
            });