Toast Item selected - AdapterView/ArrayList

Question

I have created an Adapter arraylist that uses a LayoutInflater so images keep ratio. I am trying to perform a simple toast of the item title selected i.e "Beef". Everthing workd as expected except I am getting an output from toast of, example

test com.sweatboxbbq.www.sweatboxbbq.Kansas City$MyAdaptor$Item@42aa9398

I know I am requesting a string value of and I'm getting it, but from the code, I can't figure out how to get what I want. I want to capture the title only so I can toast it back (for now then aventually do something else).

Example items.add(new Item( beef, R.drawable.mine_beef)); I would get a string value of "beef"

Maybe I can id the title's of these array items somehow and pull them from there with the onclick method?

below is my Java code

public class KansasCity extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.kansas_city);

    final GridView gridView = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.meat_choice);
    gridView.setAdapter(new MyAdapter(this));


    //on click starts here
    gridView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener(){

        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> MyAdapter, View v, int position, long id)
        {
            String flavorPicked = "" +
                    String.valueOf(MyAdapter.getItemAtPosition(position));
            Toast.makeText(KansasCity.this, "Test " + flavorPicked,
                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    });

}


//gridview
public class MyAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    public List<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>();
    private LayoutInflater inflater;


    public MyAdapter(Context context) {
        inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);

        items.add(new Item( "Beef", R.drawable.mine_beef));
        items.add(new Item("Chicken", R.drawable.mine_chicken));
        items.add(new Item("Swine", R.drawable.mine_pork));
        items.add(new Item("Fish", R.drawable.mine_pork));
        items.add(new Item("Turkey", R.drawable.mine_pork));
        items.add(new Item("Sauce", R.drawable.mine_pork));

    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return items.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int i) {
        return items.get(i);
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int i) {
        return items.get(i).drawableId;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int i, View view, ViewGroup viewGroup) {
        View v = view;
        ImageView picture;
        TextView name;

        if (v == null) {
            v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.gridview_item, viewGroup, false);
            v.setTag(R.id.picture, v.findViewById(R.id.picture));
            v.setTag(R.id.text, v.findViewById(R.id.text));
        }

        picture = (ImageView) v.getTag(R.id.picture);
        name = (TextView) v.getTag(R.id.text);

        Item item = (Item) getItem(i);

        picture.setImageResource(item.drawableId);
        name.setText(item.name);

        return v;


    }

    private class Item {
        final String name;
        final int drawableId;

        Item(String name, int drawableId) {
            this.name = name;
            this.drawableId = drawableId;
        }



    }


}

   }

Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

you can either override toString() in your Item class and make it return the String you want to display, or make the member name of Item public, and use it like

String flavorPicked = ((Item)MyAdapter.getItemAtPosition(position)).name;