How to get values from a spinner populated from a cursor?

Your spinner has taken a SimpleCursorAdapter as an adapter, of which its dataset is a Cursor . When you select an item on the spinner, you've only moved the cursor to a specific row and when you call getSelectedItem() you're still requesting for the dataset object - which is still a cursor object. To do what you're trying you can simply call.

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