Android - How to get all items in a Spinner?

Question

How do I get all items in a Spinner?

I was having trouble trying to search a way to get all items from a Spinnerbut I was not able to find an elegant so

Answer 1

A simple and elegant way to do this is, if you know the objects type that the spinner is storing:

public class User {

    private Integer id;

    private String name;

    /** Getters and Setters **/

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return name;
    }
}

Given the previous class and a Spinner that contains a list of User you can do the following:

public List<User> retrieveAllItems(Spinner theSpinner) {
    Adapter adapter = theSpinner.getAdapter();
    int n = adapter.getCount();
    List<User> users = new ArrayList<User>(n);
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        User user = (User) adapter.getItem(i);
        users.add(user);
    }
    return users;
}

This helped me! I hope it would do it for you!