Question

Hello I have question about android spinner

I have spinner which is populated by array.The array is Country name and Country phone code on every row

Part of the array

<item>355  Albania</item>
<item>213  Algeria</item>
<item>376  Andorra</item>
<item>244  Angola</item>
<item>1264  Anguilla</item>
<item>1268  Antigua and Barbuda</item>
<item>54  Argentina</item>

This is my java code for populating the spinner

final Spinner spnCountry = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.countries);
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adpCountry = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
        this, R.array.countries, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
adpCountry
    .setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spnCountry.setAdapter(adpCountry);

I want to show only country code on the box and when the spinner is opened to show country name and code on every row.

Can someone help me how to do that?

Answer 1

Loading the Spinner;

String[] countries = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.countries);

ArrayAdapter<String> adpCountry = new ArrayAdapter<String>();
for(String country : countries)
{
    String parts = country.split(" ");
    String code = parts[0];

    adpCountry.addItem(code);
}

adpCountry.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
spnCountry.setAdapter(adpCountry);

Selecting an item;

spnCountry.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener()
{
    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int index, long arg3)
    {
        String country = "";
        String[] countries = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.countries);

        String selected = countries[index];
        String[] parts = selected.split(" ");
        for(String part : parts)
        {
            country += part;
        }

        TextView txtName = findViewById(R.id.country_name);
        txtName.setText(country);
    }

    @Override
    public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0){ /* Unused */ }
});

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