How to create custom layout for your spinner in ANDROID? or Customizable spinner

By | February 20, 2011

This code helps you to customize the spinner in ANDROID.

For that you have to create an XML file inside your layout folder as shown below and name it spinner.xml.
You can give all properties that are available for TextView inside this which is going to be then applied for your spinner.

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/tv"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:typeface="serif"
android:textStyle="bold|italic"
android:textColor="@drawable/yellow"
>
TextView>

Now I will show you how to add it to a spinner.

ArrayAdapter my_Adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, R.layout.spinner,my_array);
My_spinner.setAdapter(my_Adapter);

“my_array” is an array that populates the spinner and “My_spinner” is the spinner.

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5 thoughts on “How to create custom layout for your spinner in ANDROID? or Customizable spinner

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  2. George

    please provide the complete code.First in the xml there is no layout used.
    secondly how to specify the id of textview to the adapter?

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