Android spinner showing object reference instead of string

Question

Ok so I am having a issue with my spinner. Its being populated with data pulled from a webservice. The issue im having is that when the spinner is not clicked instead of sho

Answer 1

Ok so i solved this by doing a little more research and looking at the answer to this question Example of custom setDropDownViewResource spinner item

I extracted what i was doing in getDropDownView and called it in both getView and getDropDownView.

here is the code

package com.android.main;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class DrinkAdapter extends ArrayAdapter
{
    private Activity context;
    ArrayList data = null;

    public DrinkAdapter(Activity context, int resource, ArrayList data)
    {
        super(context, resource, data);
        this.context = context;
        this.data = data;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) 
    {   // Ordinary view in Spinner, we use android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item

        return initView(position, convertView, parent);  
    }

    @Override
    public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
    {   // This view starts when we click the spinner.
        return initView(position, convertView, parent);
    }

    private View initView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View row = convertView;
        if(row == null)
        {
            LayoutInflater inflater = context.getLayoutInflater();
            row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.dropdown_value_id, parent, false);
        }

        Drink item = data.get(position);
        String test = item.getName();
        Log.d("test ", test);

        if(item != null)
        {   

            TextView drinkName = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.item_value);

            if(drinkName != null){
             drinkName.setText(item.getName());
             Log.d("find me ", drinkName.toString());
            }

        }

        return row;
    }
}