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Android Spinner to determine Marker Colour

I have a spinner which I have created for a project in Android studio. The spinner takes the following values from an array in my strings.xml file.

<string-array name="activity_types">

<item>Games</item>
<item>Learn</item>
<item>Fitness</item>
<item>Make</item>
<item>Explore</item>
<item>Find</item>
</string-array>


I would like to create a function which places a marker of a particular colour onto my map in MainActivity i.e. selecting Games, will place an orange marker on the map, when 'Games' is selected and the 'Place' button (below) is pressed. However, I am not sure how to go about this?

place_btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.place_btn);
place_btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {

//what would handle the spinner elements here?

//my marker
static final LatLng EXAMPLELOCATION = new LatLng(-37.813, 144.962);
Marker examplelocation = mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
.position(EXAMPLELOCATION)
.icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.defaultMarker(BitmapDescriptorFactory.HUE_ORANGE)));

//go to my main activity, once the marker is placed
openMainActivity();
}
});


I can see that the Google Maps SDK heading under 'Customise the marker colour' provides a function for handling adding a marker, based on colour, so I guess I am just trying to understand how to tie this into a selection from my spinner?

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