Question

 <Spinner
    android:id="@+id/spinner1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/editText2"
    android:layout_marginTop="22dp"
    android:entries="@array/categorylist"
    android:prompt="@string/category" />

i have created spinner in the above format!

final Spinner spnr= (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
    String category=spnr.getSelectedItem().toString();

pushed the spinner values in db by getting value in above format.

now when values retrieved from db. the spinner should set according to specific value…
how can i implement any ideas pls??

Answer 1

That can be possible only when you store the array of the items that are set as entries of Spinner. You can set the position of the selected item in spinner. So you have to find out index of the item that you query from the database. Load the StringArray of categorylist and iterate the array and compare each item with the item fetched from the database. Then set the index of the found item as selected item in spinner.

    String[] list = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.categorylist);
    int index = 0;
    for(String item : list) {
        if(item.equals("your_item")){
            break;
        }
        index++;
    }
    spinner.setSelection(index);