Question

I am trying to make a spinner list where my users can select a language translations based on enum ‘Language’ class.

Adding the ‘Language.values()‘ works,
but the spinner shows “af” not “AFRIKAANS”
I want the “AFRIKAANS” name shown in the spinner and onItemSelected I want the get the “af” value.

is this possible?

public enum Language {
       AUTO_DETECT(""),
       AFRIKAANS("af"),
       ALBANIAN("sq"),
       AMHARIC("am") ....and so no..

See hold enum class here:
http://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-java/source/browse/trunk/src/com/google/api/translate/Language.java

spinnerLanguage = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.translate_spinner_language);
spinnerLanguage.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<Language>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, Language.values()));
spinnerLanguage.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int pos, long id) 
    {
       Log.i("language", parent.getItemAtPosition(pos).toString());
    }
    public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) 
    {
    }
});

Answer 1

Instead of overriding toString(), change it to different function:

public String shortCode() {
  return language;
}

This way toString() will return AFRIKAANS for the Spinner display, and you can call shortCode() in onItemSelected() to get af.