Static Android Spinner?

Question

I'm writing an android app that has a spinner in it for difficulty settings (easy, medium, hard). What is happening is that when I go to the options layout I have the default (easy) is displayed. I can change it, and the effect I want happens. However, when I go back to the main layout (menu) and back again to the options layout it shows the default setting once again.

How do I get it to show my selection of medium or hard when I switch between the menu and options layouts? I've tried making a static method and creating my spinner there, but I just get errors. Please help! I will provide some code (either my own or an close approximation) if you think it will help you answer my question better. Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

You need to use the method Spinner.setSelection() to set which value the Spinner shows when it starts.

So you'd set a variable, eg difficulty when the difficulty is selected, which would be an int value between 0-2 (0 = easy, 1 = medium, 2 = hard)

Then when you draw the spinner just do this:

nameOfYourSpinner.setSelection(difficulty);

Answer 2

Firstly have some static variable in actiivty that keeps track of the spinner selection that have been made deafult 0...

@Override     
protected void onResume() {         
super.onResume();         
nameOfYourSpinner.setSelection("static variable made to track position");     
 }