How To Shorten Spinner Selected Item Text In Android?

I have used android custom spinner. My custom spinner look like bellow My List data is like List list = new ArrayList(); list.add('001-0043401645

Solution 1:

Try this. If the row item maintains same pattern as 001-00434016881-Md.Some Name

spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, adapter.getItem(position).substring(0,adapter.getItem(position).lastIndexOf("-")), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        }

        @Override
        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
    });