how to set a title for spinner which is not selectable..? [duplicate]

Question

I have spinner but in it only selectable items are shown as default title..

is there any way i can set title which doesn't appear when spinner unfolds...

Answer 1

You will have to set the prompt attribute of spinner.

<Spinner   android:id="@+id/discuss_about_spinner"  
           android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:prompt="@string/discuss_about_header"
           android:layout_below="@+id/what_time_layout">
</Spinner>

Programmatically set title to Spinner

spinner.setPrompt("Title");

I don't know what the reason is, prompt don't support direct substitution of a string value. Instead you must have your string in strings.xml.