Show default value in Spinner in android

Question

I want to show a dropdown for gender selection  I passed a string array as  String arr   new String    male   female      but the problem is that is shows default selection with the value of  male  and I want to show  Gender  as default value  If I pass  Gender  in array at position 0  then it is visible in dropdown also  I just want  Gender  as hint but it must not be shown in dropdown   Can anybody tell me how I can do this  Thanks in advance

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Try below       lt Spinner     android id    id YourSpinnerId      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android prompt  Gender    gt

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Spinner sp    Spinner findViewById R id spinner    sp setSelection pos     here pos is integer  your array item position   array is like below then pos   0   String str     new String  Select Gender   male    female       then in onItemSelected   Override     public void onItemSelected AdapterView lt   gt  main  View view  int position              long Id             if position  gt  0                get spinner value          else               show toast select gender

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Spinner don t support Hint  i recommend you to make a custom spinner adapter   check this link   https   stackoverflow com a 13878692 1725748

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I found a solution by extending ArrayAdapter and Overriding the getView method   import android content Context  import android support annotation NonNull  import android view LayoutInflater  import android view View  import android view ViewGroup  import android widget ArrayAdapter  import android widget Spinner  import android widget TextView          A SpinnerAdapter which does not show the value of the initial selection initially     but an initialText     To use the spinner with initial selection instead call notifyDataSetChanged        public class SpinnerAdapterWithInitialText lt T gt  extends ArrayAdapter lt T gt         private Context context      private int resource       private boolean initialTextWasShown   false      private String initialText    Please select                   Constructor                param context The current context          param resource The resource ID for a layout file containing a TextView to use when                        instantiating views          param objects The objects to represent in the ListView              public SpinnerAdapterWithInitialText  NonNull Context context  int resource   NonNull T   objects            super context  resource  objects           this context   context          this resource   resource                        Returns whether the user has selected a spinner item  or if still the initial text is shown          param spinner The spinner the SpinnerAdapterWithInitialText is assigned to          return true if the user has selected a spinner item  false if not              public boolean selectionMade Spinner spinner            return    TextView spinner getSelectedView    getText   toString   equals initialText                         Returns a TextView with the initialText the first time getView is called         So the Spinner has an initialText which does not represent the selected item         To use the spinner with initial selection instead call notifyDataSetChanged           after assigning the SpinnerAdapterWithInitialText               Override     public View getView int position  View recycle  ViewGroup container            if initialTextWasShown                return super getView position  recycle  container             else               initialTextWasShown   true              LayoutInflater inflater   LayoutInflater from context               final View view   inflater inflate resource  container  false                  TextView  view  setText initialText                return view                      What Android does when initialising the Spinner  is calling getView for the selected item before calling getView for all items in T   objects  The SpinnerAdapterWithInitialText returns a TextView with the initialText  the first time it is called  All the other times it calls super getView which is the getView method of ArrayAdapter which is called if you are using the Spinner normally   To find out whether the user has selected a spinner item  or if the spinner still displays the initialText  call selectionMade and hand over the spinner the adapter is assigned to

[android] Show default value in Spinner in android

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