Question

I’m working with Android and Spinners and I need some help. I have a class that creates two spinners and a button. The first spinner is for my category, my second is for my sub-category. What I am trying to do is dynamically update the second spinner (spinner2). I’ve been trying to use adapter2.clear() but that crashes android, with an error “unable to start activity componentinfo unsupported operation”

Here is my code:

public class MyClass extends MyBaseClass
{
    int category;
    int sub_category;
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter2;


    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.quizes);

        //CATEGORY INFO
        final String[] items1 = new String[] {"One", "Two", "Three"};
        final Spinner spinner1 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter1 = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, items1);
        adapter1.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner1.setAdapter(adapter1);

        //SUBCATEGORY INFO
        final String[] items2 = new String[] {"SOne", "STwo", "SThree"};
        final Spinner spinner2 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner2);
        adapter2 = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, items2);
        adapter2.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner2.setAdapter(adapter2);


        // Capture our button from layout
        Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        // Register the onClick listener with the implementation above
        button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // do something when the button is clicked



                startActivity(new Intent(MyClass.this, GoToOtherClass.class));
              } 
        });


        //SELECTOR CONTROL FOR SPINNER1 {CATEGORY}
        spinner1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
                MyClass.this.category = spinner1.getSelectedItemPosition();

        //OTHER STUFF


            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            }
        });

        //SELECTOR CONTROL FOR SPINNER2 {SUB-CATEGORY}
        spinner2.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {

                MyClass.this.sub_category = spinner2.getSelectedItemPosition();

        //OTHER STUFF

            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        return true;
    }
}

I understand about the .clear()/.add() methods, but anytime I try clear()/add() my program crashes, what do I need to do to fix things so I can change the spinner2 contents for my sub-category list? Any advice would help, as I have spent hours doing things such as:

Object t=adapter2.getitem(0);
spinner2.remove((String) t);

or adapter2.clear() and a few other tricks and I have no further ideas left. I am still learning android. I’ve tried looking at some other posts here on stackoverflow and google but was not sure how to get their ideas working.

Answer 1

After you change the contents of the second Spinner, you need to call adapter2.notifyDataSetChanged(). Without that call, the UI won’t update with the new contents of the Spinner, and you could also have problems referencing things that don’t exist anymore.