Spinner's scrollbar style

Question

I\'ve tried to change the style and the position of the scrollbar which is inside a spinner, but it does not work.

MainActivity.java:

Answer 1

After hours of work, I got the right solution (Thanks Khaled for guiding me to the right direction). You need a custom spinner:

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import org.holoeverywhere.widget.ListPopupWindow;
import org.holoeverywhere.widget.ListView;
import org.holoeverywhere.widget.Spinner;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;

public class CustomSpinner extends Spinner
{
    public CustomSpinner(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
    }

    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle, int mode)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle, mode);
    }

    public CustomSpinner(Context context, int mode)
    {
        super(context, mode);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean performClick()
    {
        boolean bClicked = super.performClick();

        try
        {
            Field mPopupField = Spinner.class.getDeclaredField("mPopup");
            mPopupField.setAccessible(true);
            ListPopupWindow pop = (ListPopupWindow) mPopupField.get(this);
            ListView listview = pop.getListView();

            Field mScrollCacheField = View.class.getDeclaredField("mScrollCache");
            mScrollCacheField.setAccessible(true);
            Object mScrollCache = mScrollCacheField.get(listview);
            Field scrollBarField = mScrollCache.getClass().getDeclaredField("scrollBar");
            scrollBarField.setAccessible(true);
            Object scrollBar = scrollBarField.get(mScrollCache);
            Method method = scrollBar.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("setVerticalThumbDrawable", Drawable.class);
            method.setAccessible(true);
            method.invoke(scrollBar, getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.scrollbar_style));

            if(VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
            {
                Field mVerticalScrollbarPositionField = View.class.getDeclaredField("mVerticalScrollbarPosition");
                mVerticalScrollbarPositionField.setAccessible(true);
                mVerticalScrollbarPositionField.set(listview, SCROLLBAR_POSITION_LEFT);
            }
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return bClicked;
    }
}

Note that I used HoloEveryWhere library, but the same solution would work with android.widget.Spinner.

Answer 2

in your app theme or activity them :

  <item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle">@style/SpinnerStyle1</item>

declare SpinnerStyle1:

<style name="SpinnerStyle1" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ListView.DropDown">
        <item name="android:divider">@color/blackText</item>
        <item name="android:dividerHeight">1px</item>
        <item name="android:scrollbars">none</item>
</style>

Answer 3

Spinners in Android doesn't have a Scrollbar, the scrollbar exist within the listView maintained inside the Spinner, and has no public access.

There's a run-time way to override it in the link below ..

Resource: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12644532/2128327