How to change layout of spinner in Android

Question

When O click on this spinner it gives a big dropdown:

Answer 1

This is a good article : Customizing the Action Bar

And also you can try this :

Design you own customized drawable for spinner background and apply to it. For spinnerbackground.xml images you can refer the images from the SDK. recreate the images as per your design requirements

"Android-sdk\platforms\android-9\data\res\drawable-hdpi\*.png"

spinnerbackground.xml

then for spinner widget apply your custom drawable:

Edited :

where popup_background is :

and

Design your custom layout for spinner texts as (name : custom_spiner.xml)

and use it as

adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.custom_spiner);

in your code.

Edited 2:

if you want to do this using java code read about PopupWindow

And may be useful : custom-spinner