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

One thing you can do is take Spinner's source code from android code base, together with related layouts and resources, and use them to create your own custom widget (probably you will only need to remove the arrow from the layout and tweak the code a little depending on your needs).

EDIT: You're right, following that post it was actually really simple :) You have to do two things. First, create a styles.xml file under res/values, open it and add the following:

Next, in your layout, add the Spinner like this:

That's it, now the spinner will look like a plain EditText, without that unuseful and annoying down arrow.