Android: Create ArrayList from Spinner programmatically

Question

I have a spinner, created in an XML file:

<Spinner
    android:id="@+id/unitSpinner"
    android:entries="@array/units" />

With its entries defined in array.xml

<string-array name="units">
    <item>g</item>
    <item>kg</item>
    <item>ml</item>
    <item>l</item>
    <item>szt.</item>
    <item>op.</item>
</string-array>

Now in my Java file I want to create an ArrayList<String> which contents after feeding it with Spinner's entries would be:

["g", "kg", "ml", "l", "szt.", "op."]

My Java code looks like this:

Spinner unit = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.unitSpinner);
ArrayList<String> array = new ArrayList<>();
//pass information from unit to array

EDIT:

This question differs from many questions like Android : Fill Spinner From Java Code Programmatically as I don't want to fill Spinner with an Array, but the opposite way.

Answer 1

You can get the list from the XML array directly. no need to get ti from the spinner

String[] ss  = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.units);
ArrayList<String> array = Arrays.asList(words);

if this aproach does not work with you you can try to get all the items fom the spinner via loop

    for( int i = 0  ; i< unit.getAdapter().getCount() ; i++ ){
                array.add ( ss.getAdapter().getItem( i ) )

}

Hope this will help.