Show default value in Spinner in android

Question

I want to show a dropdown for gender selection. I passed a string array as

String arr[]=new String[]{"male","female"}; 

but the problem is that is shows default selection with the value of "male" and I want to show "Gender" as default value. If I pass "Gender" in array at position 0, then it is visible in dropdown also. I just want "Gender" as hint but it must not be shown in dropdown.

Can anybody tell me how I can do this. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Spinner sp = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner);  sp.setSelection(pos); 

here pos is integer (your array item position)

array is like below then pos = 0;

String str[] = new String{"Select Gender","male", "female" }; 

then in onItemSelected

@Override     public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> main, View view, int position,             long Id) {          if(position > 0){           // get spinner value         }else{           // show toast select gender         }      }