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Android

Posted by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Courses Plus Student 446 Points

How to create selector elements in android programming.

I am working on a sign up activity in my android application. I wanna include a selector were a user can select their "gender" and also that were a user can select their "date of birth" and also another selector dialog to select their "country"

How can do that?

1 Answer

Abdalla Ali
Abdalla Ali
2,972 Points
Abdalla Ali
Abdalla Ali
2,972 Points

Hi Steve,

You can use Spinner from graphical layout , first you create data in strings.xml file as a type of string-array, and then you create an adapter same like you do for normal listview but instead of using simple_list_item_1 you use simple_spinner_item

Here is a code snippet:

The following code is for string-array which contain the items that will be shown inside the spinner, you can add this to Strings.xml file

<string-array name="country_list">
        <item name="United States">United States</item>
        <item name="England">England</item>
        <item name="Brazil">Brazil</item>
    </string-array>

The following code is for JAVA class

Spinner countryNames = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(activityName.this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, getResources().getStringArray(R.array.country_list);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
countryNames.setAdapter(adapter);

Hope this helps. Abdalla.