Is there a way to use setOnClickListener with an Android Spinner?

Question

The java.lang.RuntimeException is "Don't call setOnClickListener for an AdapterView. You probably want setOnItemClickListener instead," but that is not correct. I am using setOnItemClickListener to do some stuff based on the new selection, but I also need to do some stuff before the user changes the selection. Specifically, I am collecting data for each selection that needs to be saved to a file before moving to another selection, since the other selection is associated with different set of data. Is there a way to use setOnClickListener with an Android Spinner?

spinner.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // Do some stuff before the user changes the selection
        ...

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent,
            View view, int pos, long id) {
            // Do some stuff based onItemSelected
            ...

Answer 1

You will have to set the Click listener on the underlying view (normally a TextView with id: android.R.id.text1) of the spinner. To do so:

• Create a custom Spinner
• In the constructor (with attributes) create the spinner by supplying the layout android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item
• Do a findViewById(android.R.id.text1) to get the TextView
• Now set the onClickListener to the TextView