I Have to let an id be selected from a dropdown list of a spinner. If the list is empty I want to be able to enter id manually. How is this possible in android?
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I Have to let an id be selected from a dropdown list of a spinner. If the list is empty I want to be able to enter id manually. How is this possible in android?
I don’t think Spinner allows that and it’s not a good solution anyway because phone screens are small.
You can create a ListView listing all the existing items with an ‘Create New’ item on the very top.
Or you can have a Plus icon in the Action Bar or a menu choice in the menu.
You may want to study Contacts application UI to see how they do it for adding a new contact