How to create android spinner without down triangle on the right side of the widget

Question

I have a screen where the user has many items to input so screen space is at a premium.

I want the look of the widget on the screen (before the user presses it) t

Answer 1

why don't you go for a dialog with list. According to your requirement, create an edittext field, add setOnFocusChangeListener and then show a dialog with list items in onFocusChange() method. For dialog with list items

new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
                .setTitle("<Title>")
                .setItems(R.array.<ItemsArrayName>, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
     @Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub  
}}).show();

Answer 2

I was having the same issue and changed the style to:

style="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.DropDownItem.Spinner"

and it worked.

How odd, Its located in DropDownItem.

While the one that have the bottom triangle is named the normal.

Cheers!