Question

I have one spinner in my project where values comes from database and displays in spinner. But i want to set one default value to spinner as “Select Item” and the values which comes from database needs to be add next to it. The following code which i am using is…

code:

  ArrayAdapter<String> adp=new ArrayAdapter<String> (this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item,arraylist);
  spinner.setAdapter(adp);

Here i am adding the values which i get from database as arraylist to spinner & values are displaying directly. But i want to display one default value to be displayed as “Select Item”. How to set that. can anyone please help me with this..? I want as per the below image…

Answer 1

Add element at 0th index using .add(0,"Select Item");

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arraylist.add(0,"Select Item"); //Add element at 0th index

ArrayAdapter<String> adp=new ArrayAdapter<String> (this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item,arraylist);
spinner.setAdapter(adp);