Remove Spacing or Padding in android Spinner

Question

I\'m using android spinner and edittext from support lib v21. I would like to align text to left the same like edittext as shown in figure. But, deafult spinner include spac

Answer 1

In your SpinnerAdapter:

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);
        view.setPadding(0, view.getPaddingTop(), view.getPaddingRight(), view.getPaddingBottom());
        return view;
}

Answer 2

I just hit this issue as well. I was able to solve it with adjusting margin actually instead of padding, so setting android:marginStart="0dp" to the spinner item.

Answer 3

Try below code to do so. Change style attribute in your spinner list item layout to textViewStyle as below

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/text1"
    style="?android:attr/textViewStyle"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:singleLine="false"
    android:textAlignment="inherit"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

Answer 4

This Work for me

Spinner spn = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spn);

spn.setPadding(0, spn.getPaddingTop(), spn.getPaddingRight(), spn.getPaddingBottom());

Answer 5

1. Create a text-view layout view_spinner_text_view.xml:

   <TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
             android:layout_width="wrap_content"
             android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
   

2. Create the adapter by providing the above layout:

       ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
           context,
           R.array.my_values,
           R.layout.view_spinner_text_view // <-- this is for the spinner itself
       ).also { adapter ->
           adapter.setDropDownViewResource(
               android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item // <-- this is for the dropped-down items (you can customize this one as well)
           )
           spinner.adapter = adapter
       }
   

Answer 6

The layout for TextView that is displayed in your Spinner comes from your SpinnerAdapter, which provides 2 methods:

• getView(position, convertView, parent): returns View for collapsed state, you can override this to return different layouts for different selected item
• getDropdownView(position, convertView, parent): return View for each dropdown item in expanded state (after you click Spinner to open popup/dialog for selection)

In your case you should override your SpinnerAdapter.getView(position, convertView, parent) and inflate the layout with padding/spacing of your choice.

For example:

spinner.setAdapter(new MyAdapter());

MyAdapter.java

class MyAdapter implements SpinnerAdapter {
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        if (convertView == null) {
            convertView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.spinner_item, parent, false);
        }
        // bind your data here
        return convertView;
    }
    // other implementation
}

res/layout/spinner_item.xml

<!-- set padding margin whatever here -->
<TextView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

You can also conveniently use one of the framework provided SpinnerAdapter indirect subclasses (ArrayAdapter<T>, BaseAdapter, CursorAdapter, ResourceCursorAdapter, SimpleAdapter, SimpleCursorAdapter, ThemedSpinnerAdapter), just make sure to supply the correct layout that would be used by getView() method.