Using Spinner selection as a value in Android

Question

I am trying to get a Spinner to work in Android. It displays fine and I can select any one of the options in the list. But how do I transfer that to a string? I would have thought in the code below that 'selected' would hold the selected string, but I get an 'Illegal modifier for the local class YourItemSelectedListener; only abstract or final is permitted' error on the 'YourItemSelectedListener'. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks for any help.

Spinner spinnerFPS = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.sp_FPS);
        ArrayAdapter adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
                this, R.array.framesps, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinnerFPS.setAdapter(adapter);
        spinnerFPS.setOnItemSelectedListener(new YourItemSelectedListener());


        public class YourItemSelectedListener implements OnItemSelectedListener {

            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
                String selected = parent.getItemAtPosition(pos).toString();
            }

            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView parent) {
                // Do nothing.
            }
        }

Answer 1

Since you are using an array resource for spinner create a resource handle with local array declaration with getResources().getStringArray(R.array.framesps);

and then use that handle to access the selected item using position variable:

items[pos]

Heres a code edit:

Spinner spinnerFPS = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.sp_FPS);
    String[] items=getResources().getStringArray(R.array.framesps);//handle to your arrays
ArrayAdapter adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
            this, items, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    spinnerFPS.setAdapter(adapter);
    spinnerFPS.setOnItemSelectedListener(new YourItemSelectedListener());


    public class YourItemSelectedListener implements OnItemSelectedListener {

        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
            String selected =items[pos]; // use handler to access select item
        }

        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView parent) {
            // Do nothing.
        }
    }

Answer 2

ArrayAdapter adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
        this, items, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);

You will have to add the CurrentActivityName.this. This will fix the issue. You just can't pass the argument context as this. You will have to put ActivityName.this.