Style android spinner

Question

I\'m trying to get my android app a bit more stylish and have made some progress but the spinner dropdown are giving me trouble. I\'ve got a screenshot to show you the probl

Answer 1

Remove the SpinnerStyle background attribute.

Remove this:

which is what draws the background white rectangle.

Building on the code in your question, here is a basic example on how you can style your Spinner:

The styles.xml file sets styles for the SpinnerItem and SpinnerDropDownItem:

For testing, I've created a bright-colored drawable shape, called my_rectangle.xml. Replace this with your own drawable:

Add the Spinner to the Activity's layout:

This produces:

with no white square in the background.