How to extract the text from the selected item on the listView

Question

I have a listview with some items. I would like to get the text from the selected item.

Here is my list adapter and the onItemClickListener:

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Answer 1

Here's for future reference for anyone that stumbles on this. In my case I had a custom adapter class, with type as a POJO class I had. Also the items I wanted to pass to the adapter and display in my ListView where of the util.List class.

I successfully passed the data to the ListView, but also wanted to get the text of the currently selected.

Eg: the data I passed was a list of schools that a lecturer taught at, so he had to select the particular school he wanted to work with at that time, and on logging in I wanted to pass an intent to a new Activity with the current school the lecturer had selected.

Thus my ListView onClick():

private void loginSuccess() {
    progressDialog.dismiss();
    if (mySchoolsList.size() > 1) {
        schoolsListView = new ListView(MainActivity.this);
        schoolsArrayAdapter = new SchoolListAdapter(MainActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, mySchoolsList);
        schoolsListView.setAdapter(schoolsArrayAdapter);

        dialog = new Dialog(MainActivity.this);
        dialog.setContentView(schoolsListView);
        dialog.setTitle("Welcome " + staff.getFullName());
        dialog.show();


        schoolsListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                //the .getName() is accessed from the School POJO class.
                String schoolName = schoolsArrayAdapter.getItem(position).getName();
                intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, NavMainActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra("sentIntent", schoolName);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

    } else {
        intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, NavMainActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("sentIntent", recieveName);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

Hope this saves someone someday, because all the solutions here didn't work for me. Cheers!