How to get the selected item from ListView?

Solution 1:

By default, when you click on a ListView item it doesn't change its state to "selected". So, when the event fires and you do:

myList.getSelectedItem();

The method doesn't have anything to return. What you have to do is to use the position and obtain the underlying object by doing:

myList.getItemAtPosition(position);

Solution 2:

You are implementing the Click Handler rather than Select Handler. A List by default doesn't suppose to have selection.

What you should change, in your above example, is to

public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapter, View v, int position, long id) {
    MyClass item = (MyClass) adapter.getItem(position);
}

Solution 3:

Since the onItemClickLitener() will itself provide you the index of the selected item, you can simply do a getItemAtPosition(i).toString(). The code snippet is given below :-

    listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {

            String s = listView.getItemAtPosition(i).toString();

            Toast.makeText(activity.getApplicationContext(), s, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            adapter.dismiss(); // If you want to close the adapter
        }
    });

On the method above, the i parameter actually gives you the position of the selected item.

Solution 4:

On onItemClick :

String text = parent.getItemAtPosition(position).toString();