Android Spinner: Set selected item as default

Question

I am making an android app that asks for the users to select a country via spinner.

When the user opens the app first time, user selects a country from list.

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Answer 1

You can use SharedPreferences to store the selection the first time that the user selects a country, and then use SharedPreferences again for the app to remember the selection, when the user returns a second time.

To store the selection in a SharedPrefence:

SharedPreferences.Editor editor = getPreferences(0).edit();
int selectedPosition = yourSpinner.getSelectedItemPosition();
editor.putInt("spinnerSelection", selectedPosition);
editor.apply();

To load the selection onto the spinner when reusing the app:

SharedPreferences prefs = getPreferences(0);
yourSpinner.setSelection(prefs.getInt("spinnerSelection",0));

Hope this solves your issue :)