JSON Data into Spinner Based on Selection

Question

Data is coming form JSON RESPONSE. In JSON, Every Tag contains number of nodes. Relevant data into second spinner is based on selection of First. My JSON Is Like Here

Answer 1

This code can give you little idea about populating your objects from JSON which you get from the API's.

What you want to do is quite simple but i tried to keep things as generic as possible so anyone else ca make a use of this code.

the spinner represented in the code is populated by ArrayList of WorldPopulation type. you will notice that toString of WorldPopulation is overridden that it can be used in the ArrayAdapter so the name of the country will be picked up.

public class LoadDataActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private Spinner spinner;
    private ArrayList<WorldPopulation> worldPopulations;

    private TextView rank_TextView;
    private TextView country_TextView;
    private TextView population_TextView;
    private TextView url_TextView;


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_load_data);


        spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.LoadDataActivity_spinner);

        rank_TextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.LoadDataActivity_rank_textView);
        country_TextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.LoadDataActivity_country_textView);
        population_TextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.LoadDataActivity_population_textView);
        url_TextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.LoadDataActivity_url_textView);

        spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                WorldPopulation population = (WorldPopulation) spinner.getItemAtPosition(position);
                rank_TextView.setText("" + population.getRank());
                country_TextView.setText("" + population.getCountry());
                population_TextView.setText("" + population.getPopulation());
                url_TextView.setText("" + population.getFlag());
            }

            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {

            }
        });

        new DownloadData().execute();
    }


    private class DownloadData extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
        }

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {

            try {
                worldPopulations = new ArrayList<>();
                URL url = new URL("http://www.androidbegin.com/tutorial/jsonparsetutorial.txt");
                HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                httpURLConnection.connect();
                String result = IOUtils.toString(httpURLConnection.getInputStream());
                System.out.println("" + result);
                JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(result);
                JSONArray jsonArray = jsonObject.getJSONArray("worldpopulation");
                for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
                    JSONObject singleItem = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
                    WorldPopulation population = new WorldPopulation();
                    population.rank = singleItem.getString("rank");
                    population.country = singleItem.getString("country");
                    population.population = singleItem.getString("population");
                    population.flag = singleItem.getString("flag");
                    worldPopulations.add(population);
                }

                Log.d("TAG", "" + result);
                Log.d("TAG", "size: " + worldPopulations.size());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
            super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
            ArrayAdapter<WorldPopulation> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<WorldPopulation>(getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item, worldPopulations);
            adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1);
            spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
        }
    }

    class WorldPopulation {
        private String rank;
        private String country;
        private String population;
        private String flag;

        public String getRank() {
            return rank;
        }

        public void setRank(String rank) {
            this.rank = rank;
        }

        public String getCountry() {
            return country;
        }

        public void setCountry(String country) {
            this.country = country;
        }

        public String getPopulation() {
            return population;
        }

        public void setPopulation(String population) {
            this.population = population;
        }

        public String getFlag() {
            return flag;
        }

        public void setFlag(String flag) {
            this.flag = flag;
        }

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

}

activity_load_data.xml

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_margin="4dp"
    android:orientation="vertical">


    <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/LoadDataActivity_spinner"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_margin="4dp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LoadDataActivity_rank_textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="4dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LoadDataActivity_country_textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="4dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LoadDataActivity_population_textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="4dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/LoadDataActivity_url_textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="4dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
</LinearLayout>

Output

Now that you have the data being populated in the Spinner you can utilize this to trigger the populate second spinner depending on the selection on the first spinner.

Apparently I didn't see any link that would tell me about the second source of data, i will leave the answer here until next update.