You can set the spinners background color in xml like this: android:background=”YOUR_HEX_COLOR_CODE” and if you use the drop down menu with you spinner you can set its background color like this: android:popupBackground=”YOUR_HEX_COLOR_CODE”
I want the text size, font and colour to match that of the TextInputLayout‘s floating label. This can be achieved easily without any external libraries. After trying to hack the TextInputLayout and even making my own custom view, I realized that using a simple TextView takes much less code and it’s probably more efficient. The … Read more
// you need to have a list of data that you want the spinner to display List<String> spinnerArray = new ArrayList<String>(); spinnerArray.add(“item1”); spinnerArray.add(“item2”); ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>( this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, spinnerArray); adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item); Spinner sItems = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1); sItems.setAdapter(adapter); also to find out what is selected you could do something like this String selected = sItems.getSelectedItem().toString(); … Read more
This is what worked for me (using ideas both from CommonsWare’s and gsanllorente’s answers): private static class MySpinnerAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> { // Initialise custom font, for example: Typeface font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), “fonts/Blambot.otf”); // (In reality I used a manager which caches the Typeface objects) // Typeface font = FontManager.getInstance().getFont(getContext(), BLAMBOT); private MySpinnerAdapter(Context context, int resource, … Read more
Try this: String text = mySpinner.getSelectedItem().toString(); Like this you can get value for different Spinners.
See the first line of your logcat: java.lang.RuntimeException: setOnItemClickListener cannot be used with a spinner. setOnItemClickListener cannot be used with a Spinner. Use setOnItemSelectedListener instead.
ProgressDialog is deprecated from Android Oreo. Use ProgressBar instead ProgressDialog progress = new ProgressDialog(this); progress.setTitle(“Loading”); progress.setMessage(“Wait while loading…”); progress.setCancelable(false); // disable dismiss by tapping outside of the dialog progress.show(); // To dismiss the dialog progress.dismiss(); OR ProgressDialog.show(this, “Loading”, “Wait while loading…”); Read more here. By the way, Spinner has a different meaning in Android. (It’s … Read more
Create a custom adapter with a custom layout for your spinner. Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.pioedittxt5); ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.travelreasons, R.layout.simple_spinner_item); adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item); spinner.setAdapter(adapter); R.layout.simple_spinner_item <TextView xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:id=”@android:id/text1″ style=”@style/spinnerItemStyle” android:maxLines=”1″ android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:ellipsize=”marquee” /> R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item <CheckedTextView xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:id=”@android:id/text1″ style=”@style/spinnerDropDownItemStyle” android:maxLines=”1″ android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”?android:attr/dropdownListPreferredItemHeight” android:ellipsize=”marquee” /> In styles add your custom dimensions and height as per your … Read more
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this); // Will call onItemSelected() Listener. So first time handle this with any Integer value Example: Initially Take int check = 0; public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int pos,long id) { if(++check > 1) { TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1); String str = (String) parent.getItemAtPosition(pos); textView.setText(str); } } You can do it with boolean … Read more
simple / elegant / how I do it: Preview: XML: <Spinner android:id=”@+id/spinner1″ android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:background=”@android:drawable/btn_dropdown” android:spinnerMode=”dropdown”/> spinnerMode set to dropdown is androids way to make a dropdown. (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Spinner#attr_android:spinnerMode) Java: //get the spinner from the xml. Spinner dropdown = findViewById(R.id.spinner1); //create a list of items for the spinner. String[] items = new String[]{“1”, “2”, “three”}; //create … Read more