Question

I have a simple Android Spinner which I fill with a two column list of “icon” and “name”. This works perfect.

ArrayList<HashMap<String, Object>> stationList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, Object>>();
... // fill stationList 
Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.stations);
SimpleAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
                                this,
                                stationList,
                                R.layout.listitem,
                                new String[] { "icon", "name" },
                                new int[] {R.id.option_icon, R.id.option_text });
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

How can I retrieve a row from the list by just knowing the “name”? I do not know the id nor the position in the spinner!

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you want to search the stationList to find a specific value, you can try something like this:

for(HashMap<String, Object> map : stationList) {
    if(map.containsValue("name")) {
        // Do something
    }
}