How to insert extra elements into a SimpleCursorAdapter or Cursor for a Spinner?

Question

I have a Spinner which is to show a list of data fetched from database. The data is returned to a cursor from query, and the cursor gets passed to spinner\'s SimpleCursorAda

Answer 1

You can use a combination of MergeCursor and MatrixCursor with your DB cursor like this:

MatrixCursor extras = new MatrixCursor(new String[] { "_id", "title" });
extras.addRow(new String[] { "-1", "New Template" });
extras.addRow(new String[] { "-2", "Empty Template" });
Cursor[] cursors = { extras, cursor };
Cursor extendedCursor = new MergeCursor(cursors);