How to set and get the id for the items in the spinner in Android

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Published on 2012-03-31T07:51:09Z Indexed on 2012/09/10 9:38 UTC
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I have a problem in my project that i am displaying a activity which would contain the details of the project which is previously added in Project Management System..
Now the fields in it are like:

Fields of the Activity    

Name Of Project: ABC(EditText)  
Name Of Developer : ________(Spinner)    
Deadline : ________(Date Picker)  
Created On : _______(TextView)
.  
.  

Now, the Spinner contains the Names of all developers working in the Company..I have used the ArrayAdapter with a array having the names of all the developers which is fetched from the database..

The problem is that when i update the Name Of Developer field, i get Only the Name of the Developer which is not enough to update the data as their can be multiple developers with the same name in the Company..So now I require the id of the developers to update it..
How to store that id of the developers with the Spinner so that i can achieve this..

Please help me to sort this out.

Actually what i want to do like is as that we do in html::
<select>
<option id="1">Developer1</option>
<option id="2">Developer2</option>
<option id="3">Developer2</option>
<option id="4">Developer2</option>
</select>

where the id attached would be the database id....I want to imitate this in our android....

This the code that i have used to store the names in the array::

String alldevelopers = null;
        try {
            ArrayList<NameValuePair> postP = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
            alldevelopers = CustomHttpClient.executeHttpPost(
                    "/fetchdevelopers.php", postP);
            String respcl = alldevelopers.toString();
            alldevelopersParser dev = new alldevelopersParser();
            ow = dev.parseByDOM(respcl);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }  

String developers[] = new String[ow.length];    //dev is a class object  
for (int n = 0; n < ow.length; n++)   
{  
  developers[n] = ow.developer[n][2];
}  

This is the Spinner that would spin the array..

    final Spinner devl = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.towner);  
    devl.setOnItemSelectedListener(managetasks.this);
    ArrayAdapter<String> b =   
    new ArrayAdapter<String>getApplicationContext(),  
    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,developers);  
    b.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line);  
    devl.setAdapter(b);

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