By default, whenever you populate your spinner with an array via an adapter, there is a little triangle in the bottom right corner of the spinner object. I decided to make a custom spinneritem and spinner item drop list, however, when I did I lost the simple but effective triangle. This question, Show triangle inside the view that opens a popupmenu (like with a spinner), did not answer my question and is the only source I have been able to be remotely close to answering my question. I made a TextView xml file for the spinner item called spinner_item.xml and another xml file that used another TextView for my dropdown list. Here is the code for each xml file:
spinner_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/text1"
android:background="#ff6600"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:textColor="#355e3b"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
/>
spinner_dropdown_item
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/text2"
android:background="#ff6600"
android:textColor="#355e3b"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
/>
The source that I used to get this code was found here: http://www.broculos.net/2013/09/how-to-change-spinner-text-size-color.html#.U74fHFFWNq0
I didn't post the code from the MainActivity class as the code I currently have compiles and runs fine. I just want to see the triangle so the user knows to select that list. Thanks for any help!
