Question

I am trying to add few items in the spinner list. But somehow everytime, I always get the below exception on this–

Cannot use this in a static context

Below is my code

  public static void initSpinnerView(Context context, Spinner spinnerView, String prefix, int numItems, int layout) {

    //spinnerView = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner2);
    List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
    list.add("list 1");
    list.add("list 2");
    list.add("list 3");
    ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, list);
    dataAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    spinnerView.setAdapter(dataAdapter);
    }
}

Can anyone tell me what wrong I am doing here?

Answer 1

this

This is a Java keyword indicateing the current object. If I am not wrong, this method is placed in an class that extends Activity. Hence, this refers to the Activity object( which is used as Context in this case). And since it is a static method, you cannot used the keyword this or non-static variables.

In order to fix it,change to this line:

ArrayAdapter<String> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(context, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, list);