I created a select_one question with "minimal" appearance. There are more than 100 possible answers (species list). When I tap, the spinner widget opens showing the end of the option list. I would like to show the top of the list when opening, because it is in order of previous frequency and therefore it is more likely that someone will need choices from the top. It would help me if I could add a default answer, but if I add one answer as default, it does not appear. I also tried adding a calculated field to the form and add in the .xml:
calculate="/form/defaultanswer"
It still did not show up.
I use ODK Collect 1.12.2 on Android 4.2.1 (Evolveo)
I would think this does not make a difference.
Sure, I shared the form. There is one thing I forgot to mention: the answers are in a .csv and the appearance is minimal search('list.cv'). There are a number of questions like this, e.g. fafaj.
You have the right idea with trying to set a default as a workaround. I believe you are using XLSForm, set the default value in the default column: http://xlsform.org/#default.
I did some testing and although it seemed like a good solution, setting the default with the calculate does have some problems. My question is within a repeat group. When I swipe back to the previous repeat and back again, the filled value disappears and the default shows...