

Android studio spinner how to#
In this tutorial, we show you how to do the following tasks : Render a Spinner in XML, and load the selection items via XML file also. Note Spinner is a widget similar to a drop-down list for selecting items. Thus… Not a lot of work was required to transition 8) That’s what we all love. In Android, you can use class to render a dropdown box selection list. How to access local files of the filesystem in the Android invoke Android Device Monitor, select the device in the Devices tab on the left, select File Explorer tab on the right, navigate to the file you want, and.in recovery mode find wipe cache partition and then press okay and Note that you can use the very same CountryAdapter but rename the getDropDownView() method to getView(), and get rid of existing getView(). Meet people using Android to change whats possible in daily life. We have full control of its UI! I chose ListView, could be anything else! All rendered by layout_country_dropdown.xml. So here we handle the dropdown view by ourselves. The magic of adding a header will be done in our CountryAdapter class:ĬountryAdapter.kt class CountryAdapter( context: Context ) : ArrayAdapter(context, 0, OperatedCountry.values()) With property android:background we can add a blue outline when Spinner is in the selected state and with android:popupBackground the background of dropdown view - easy so far. Thanks to we can see in Android Studio Designer how the Spinner will look like and adjust paddings/margins properly :) In this way, we’ve just built a Spinner widget on our UI. OK, so let’s begin with implementing the layout:

Is it possible to implement using Spinner Widget? Let’s see. Firstly, let’s see that getView () method will build UI when Spinner is in idle state and getDropDownView () will build particular items when Spinner dropdown gets opened. So the design for selection was not looking like a default Android Spinner as it had a header included when going to dropdown mode. Spinner Design ||| Spinner Design - dropdown
