nothing happens when i click on the first item in android spinner. how do i fix that?

Question

When I click on the first item in the spinner, or the default one, the spinner just collapses. All other items perform desired action. How do I get the first item to fire an action?

Answer 1

You are having this problem (assuming you have implemented the setOnItemSelectedListener() for the Spinner ) because Spinner calls the onItemSelected() only when you change the Selection, in other words select a new item in the Spinner . Hence the Spinner simply collapse when you select the default selection.

Hope this explanation helps.