How to get Spinner value

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In Android  I am trying to get the selected Spinner value with a listener   What is the best way to get the spinner s value

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The Spinner should fire an  OnItemSelected  event when something is selected   spinner setOnItemSelectedListener new AdapterView OnItemSelectedListener         public void onItemSelected AdapterView lt   gt  parent  View view  int pos  long id            Object item   parent getItemAtPosition pos             public void onNothingSelected AdapterView lt   gt  parent

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Spinner mySpinner    Spinner  findViewById R id your spinner   String text   mySpinner getSelectedItem   toString

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add setOnItemSelectedListener to spinner reference  and get the data like that     mSizeSpinner setOnItemSelectedListener new AdapterView OnItemSelectedListener              Override         public void onItemSelected AdapterView lt   gt  adapterView  View view  int position  long l                selectedSize adapterView getItemAtPosition position  toString

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View view   View  getActivity   findViewById controlId   Spinner spinner    Spinner view findViewById R id spinner1   String valToSet   spinner getSelectedItem   toString

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Say this is your xml with spinner entries  ie  titles  and values    lt resources gt       lt string-array name  size entries  gt           lt item gt Small lt  item gt           lt item gt Medium lt  item gt           lt item gt Large lt  item gt       lt  string-array gt        lt string-array name  size values  gt           lt item gt 12 lt  item gt           lt item gt 16 lt  item gt           lt item gt 20 lt  item gt       lt  string-array gt   lt  resources gt    and this is your spinner    lt Spinner     android id    id size spinner      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android entries   array size entries    gt    Then in your code to get the entries   Spinner spinner    Spinner  findViewById R id size spinner   String size   spinner getSelectedItem   toString       Small  Medium  Large   and to get the values   int spinner pos   spinner getSelectedItemPosition    String   size values   getResources   getStringArray R array size values   int size   Integer valueOf size values spinner pos       12  16  20

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Yes  you can register a listener via setOnItemSelectedListener    as is demonstrated here

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If you already know the item is a String  I prefer   String itemText    String  mySpinner getSelectedItem      Calling toString   on an Object that you know is a String seems like a more roundabout path than just casting the Object to String

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