Android Spinner Prompt Not Working

I have Spinners that I am using in my application. They are working fine with one exception. I have set prompts for each one, but they are not showing. I am setting ArrayAdapters t

Solution 1:

This seems to happen even if you put the OnItemSelectedListener in the onStart() method of the activity.

The work around I did for this issue was I put a default message in position 0 of my resource array ("Select Trip Type"). So when the OnItemSelectedListener is called, if position 0 is selected, then do nothing. Here is my code:

 mTripTypeSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(newOnItemSelectedListener(){

        @OverridepublicvoidonItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent,View v,int position,long rowId) {
            //boolean used for hiding spinnerbooleanhideSpinner=true;

            switch(position){
                case0:
                    //nothing was selected - defualt "Select Trip Type"
                    hideSpinner = false;
                    break;
                case1:
                    mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.DELIVERY);
                    break;
                case2:
                    mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.START_OF_BREAK);
                    break;
                case3:
                    mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.END_OF_BREAK);
                    break;
                case4:
                    mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.START_OF_LUNCH);
                    break;
                case5:
                    mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.END_OF_LUNCH);
                    break;
                case6:
                    mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.END_OF_TRIP);
                    break;
            }

            //display other data screens
            displayData(hideSpinner);
        }
        @OverridepublicvoidonNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            mCurrentStop.setStopType(Stop.STOP_TYPE.DELIVERY);
        }
    });