posted 2 years ago
I think what you actually want to do is pre-select a certain item in your spinner. Yes, you could arrange the data in broken alphabetical order, but it's a lot of work and it's likely to confuse the user. So instead of doing database tricks, I'd recommend that you simply pre-select the spinner to the preferred value.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.