Passing a variable between methods inside the same activity - variables

Question

Within the MainActivity I've two main methods. One is a cursor and the other is a spinner. Within the cursor method, I retrieve some data from the SQlite database to be used as variables.
in MainActivity
//reinserted EGG outside
String EGG;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
.....
private void gettree() {
Cursor cursor = db.getBall();
cur(cursor);
}}
public void cur(Cursor ur) {
int orange = 0;
if (ur.moveToFirst()) {
do {
int apple = ur.getInt(0);
orange = 0 + apple;
} while(ur.moveToNext());
}
ur.close();
//the EGG variable
int EGG = orange;
}}
#Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView,
View view, int i, long l) {
//eclipse does not recognize EGG here
Toast.makeText(this, EGG, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Spinner clink = (Spinner)adapterView;
if(clink.getId() == R.id.dpz)
{ TextView mysdp =(TextView) view;
....
}}
in DatabaseAdapter
public Cursor getBall() {
String[] A = new String[] {"first"};
String condition = "_id = '1'";
Cursor e = db.query(true, "maintable", A,
condition, null, null, null, null, null);
if (returnee != null) {
e.moveToFirst();
}
return returnee;
}
What I hope to do is use the EGG variable to the onItemSelected method for the spinner using the fastest and most efficient way. I'm new to android and I'm not sure exactly how to do this. I tried declaring the EGG variable but it does not update (in fact eclipse says its not being used).
Do I have to reaccess the getBall to get the variable from inside the onItemSelected method and I'm not sure how to do that. I guess I am really hoping for a more simple way to access the EGG variable I've already found in the first method.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As pointed out by Tenfour04, I've declared the variable outside of the class and its viewable across the activity.