How to set Spinner default value to null?

Question

I\'m trying to get a Spinner to load up with no selected value. Once the user selects a value it then takes them to another page.

This is proving to be a problem be

Answer 1

I assume that you want to have a Spinner with first empty invisible item (that is a strange feature of Spinner that cannot show a list without selecting an item). You should add a class that will contain data:

data class YourData(val id: Int, val name: String?)

This is the adapter.

class YourAdapter(
    context: Context,
    private val textViewResourceId: Int,
    private var items: ArrayList
) : ArrayAdapter(context, textViewResourceId, items) {

    private var inflater: LayoutInflater = context.getSystemService(
        Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE) as LayoutInflater

    override fun getCount(): Int = items.size + 1

    override fun getItem(position: Int): YourData? =
        if (position == 0) YourData(0, "") else items[position - 1]

    override fun getItemId(position: Int): Long = position.toLong()

    override fun getView(position: Int, convertView: View?, parent: ViewGroup): View =
        if (position == 0) {
            getFirstTextView(convertView)
        } else {
            getTextView(convertView, parent, position - 1)
        }

    override fun getDropDownView(position: Int, convertView: View?, parent: ViewGroup): View =
        getView(position, convertView, parent)

    private fun getFirstTextView(convertView: View?): View {
        // Just simple TextView as initial selection.
        var textView: TextView? = convertView as? TextView
        val holder: FirstViewHolder
        if (textView?.tag !is FirstViewHolder) {
            textView = TextView(context) // inflater.inflate(R.layout.your_text, parent, false) as TextView
            textView.height = 0 // Hide first item.
            holder = FirstViewHolder()
            holder.textView = textView
            textView.tag = holder
        }
        return textView
    }

    private fun getTextView(
        convertView: View?,
        parent: ViewGroup,
        position: Int
    ): TextView {
        var textView: TextView? = convertView as? TextView
        val holder: ViewHolder
        if (textView?.tag is ViewHolder) {
            holder = textView.tag as ViewHolder
        } else {
            textView = inflater.inflate(textViewResourceId, parent, false) as TextView
            holder = ViewHolder()
            holder.textView = textView
            textView.tag = holder
        }
        holder.textView.text = items[position].name

        return textView
    }

    private class FirstViewHolder {
        lateinit var textView: TextView
    }

    private class ViewHolder {
        lateinit var textView: TextView
    }
}

To create:

YourAdapter(context!!, R.layout.text_item, ArrayList())

To add items:

private fun fill(items: List, adapter: YourAdapter) {
    adapter.run {
        clear()
        addAll(items)
        notifyDataSetChanged()
    }
}

When you load items to your Spinner with that fill() command, you should know, that indices are also incremented. So if you wish to select 3rd item, you should now select 4th: spinner?.setSelection(index + 1)