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allen
allen

Reputation: 141

how to add item to Spinner's ArrayAdapter?

i had a EditText , a button and a spinner . When click the button , the spinner will add a new item with name you entered in the EditText. But here is the question, my adapter.add() method seems doesn't work...here is my code:

public class Spr extends Activity {
Button bt1;
EditText et;
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter;
Spinner spinner;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    bt1 = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.bt1);
    et = (EditText)this.findViewById(R.id.et);  
    spinner = (Spinner)this.findViewById(R.id.spr);

    adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
            this, R.array.planets_array, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);

    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

    spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

    bt1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            String temp = et.getText().toString();

            adapter.add(temp);
            adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
            spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

        }
    });


    spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new Spinner.OnItemSelectedListener(){

        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int pos, long id) {

            Toast.makeText(parent.getContext(), "The planet is " +
                      parent.getItemAtPosition(pos).toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        }

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

        }});
}

}

thanks! ...still waitting

Upvotes: 14

Views: 48809

Answers (4)

Hossein
Hossein

Reputation: 324

you can create an arraylist and copy all recourse to this object then create arrayadaptor and send this arraylist and in onclicklistener of button, add edittext content to arraylist object then call notifydatasetchanged of adator

Upvotes: 0

Anthony Graglia
Anthony Graglia

Reputation: 5435

Javi is right except don't reference an array for the second parameter.

adapter = new ArrayAdapter<CharSequence>(this,
  android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,
  someList);

Upvotes: 3

Javi
Javi

Reputation: 19769

When you have created your ArrayAdapter you haven't assigned a resizeable List to it, so when you do add() it cannot increment the size of it and throws a UnsupportedOperationException.

Try something like this:

List<CharSequence> planets = new ArrayList<CharSequence>();
adapter = new ArrayAdapter<CharSequence>(context,
                       R.array.planets_array, planets);
//now you can call adapter.add()

You should use a List. With an Array such as CharSequence[] you would get the same UnsupportedOperationException exception.

Upvotes: 15

AdamC
AdamC

Reputation: 16273

I believe this is working as designed, but not as expected. ArrayAdapter used to only take an array, but the list constructor was added later. I'm guessing its just doing a toArray() on your list. This is why you have to either call add on the adapter, or create a new adapter when your List changes.

Upvotes: 1

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