Populating Spinner from XML

bolo · by **bolo** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:53 am

Can anyone tell me how to populate a spinner control from a custom XML file?

What I'm trying to do is display a list of cities derived from the XML, which contains city name/lat & long values. And when selected will allow me to determine the lat & long for selected city.

Thanks

WarrenFaith · by **WarrenFaith** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:39 am

Sorry but i don't really understand what you want to do...
Can you be a bit more specific?

bolo · by **bolo** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:49 am

WarrenFaith wrote:Sorry but i don't really understand what you want to do...
Can you be a bit more specific?

Hi - I understand you can easily use an ArrayAdapter to bind to a Spinner, but they only (as far as I can see) support a one dimensional array. What I was trying to discover was whether theres any existing adapter that supports custom XML files..

E.g.

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<data>
 <city>
   <name>London</name>
   <latitude>52.0</latitude>
   <longitude>0</longitude>
  </city>
 <city>
   <name>Sydney, Australia</name>
   <latitude>32.0</latitude>
   <longitude>120</longitude>
  </city>
</data>
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And show the city name in the spinner, but be able to retrieve the other xml data, lat & long when the item is selected....

WarrenFaith · by **WarrenFaith** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:28 am

Take a look at this, it may help you:
viewtopic.php?t=353

Populating Spinner from XML

Populating Spinner from XML

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