Spinner in android is more confusing to use. It is also hard to customize it for our needs. Based on the purpose, a simple alert dialog could be used as a replacement for spinner.
In my requirement, I had a button. When the button is clicked, the options should be listed. Based on the selected options, the value of the button is set.
Here is the code for the above requirement.
In the Xml, define the button layout.
<Button
android:id="@+id/annualButton1"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/totincome"
android:layout_marginLeft ="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:layout_alignTop="@id/totincome"
android:background="@android:drawable/btn_default"
android:textSize="15dp"/>
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In the code, alert dialog is called when the button is clicked. Based on the option selected, button value is set.
annualButton1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
sButtonClicked = "button1";
showSpinner();
}
});
protected void showSpinner()
{
AlertDialog.Builder b = new Builder(this);
String[] options = {sItem1,sItem2};
b.setTitle("Select an option" );
b.setSingleChoiceItems(options, -1,new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
{
dialog.dismiss();
switch(which){
case 0:
{
annualButton.setText("p.a");;
sAnnual = sItem1;
break;
}
case 1:
{
annualButton.setText("p.m");
sAnnual = sItem2;
break;
}
}}
});
b.setPositiveButton("CANCEL", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
dialog.dismiss();
}
});
b.show();}
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It is much simpler than using a spinner. Isn’t it?
HTC Desire is a great Android phone providing a rich user experience with it's Sense UI. It runs smooth and fast. Several cool features made me love this phone at first sight. That was until I get the "Low on space" notification. HTC was so stingy that it had included just 576 MB of ROM of which around 430 MB is consumed by Android, HTC Sense and HTC's bundled apps. This leaves just around 140 MB of space for the user to use for installing his downloaded apps. This is very meagre and soon every HTC Desire owner hits the dreaded "Low on space" notification. This handicaps the expandability of the phone which is the core strength of any Android phone. Nevertheless I still love my phone. I had come up with a few techniques to "manage" this problem as shown below.
