AndroidStudio kotlin AlertDialogue with spinner populated with setItems - android-studio

Question

I want to show a modal dialogue for the user to select a Bluetooth device in the case that I can't guess it from the device names.
It appears that AlertDialogue has the facility to show a spinner / dropdown.
The alert dialogue builder has a method setItems which I seem to think is what I need, however, its parameter is CharSequence[] but I have some sort of array of strings (I can't tell exactly what I have because everything is just val).
private fun showDialog() {
val names = (bta!!.bondedDevices).map { z -> z.name };
// What is the type of names? How can you find this out?
// How can you make it into a CharSequence[]?
val ab = AlertDialog.Builder(this);
ab.setTitle("Select device");
ab.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert); // I'd prefer a question mark.
ab.setPositiveButton("Select"){dialogueInterface, which -> Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Selected", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()};
ab.setNeutralButton("Cancel"){dialogueInterface, which -> Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Cancelled", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()};
ab.setItems(names); // None of the following functions can be called with the arguments supplied.
val a = ab.create();
a.setCancelable(false);
a.show();
}
I think this works in Java, but it doesn't in kotlin
CharSequence[] cs = list.toArray(new CharSequence[list.size()]);
So:
In AndroidStudio how can you tell the type of a variable? (In VisualStudio if you hover over a var then the tooltip tells you.)
How in kotlin do you make a CharSequence[]?

Answer 1

fun elmFind() {
// Find device
val pairedDevices: Set<BluetoothDevice>? = bta!!.bondedDevices
// Try to guess.
for (device in pairedDevices!!) {
if (device.name.contains("obd")) {
elmConnect(device.name);
return;
}
}
// Still going therefore didn't find one therefore ask.
val cs: Array<CharSequence> = pairedDevices.map { z -> z.name }.toTypedArray()
var elmDeviceName: String = ""
val ab = AlertDialog.Builder(this);
ab.setTitle("Select device");
ab.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
ab.setPositiveButton("Select") { dialogueInterface, which ->
elmConnect(elmDeviceName);
};
ab.setNeutralButton("Cancel") { dialogueInterface, which ->
Toast.makeText(
applicationContext,
"Cancelled",
Toast.LENGTH_LONG
).show()
};
ab.setItems(cs) { dialog, which -> elmDeviceName = cs[which].toString() };
val a = ab.create();
a.setCancelable(false);
a.show();
}
Will this work with the local variable elmDeviceName being used to get the value of the selected item in the case when the OK button is pressed?