How to set selected item of Spinner by value, not by position?

Question

I have a update view, where I need to preselect the value stored in database for a Spinner.

I was having in mind something like this, but the Adapter has no indexOf method, so I am stuck .

void setSpinner(String value)
    {
        int pos=getSpinnerField().getAdapter().indexOf(value);
        getSpinnerField().setSelection(pos);
    }

Answer 1

I keep a separate ArrayList of all the items in my Spinners. This way I can do indexOf on the ArrayList and then use that value to set the selection in the Spinner.