Android Spinner - How to make dropdown view transparent?

Question

I have a custom spinner dropdown xml file in /res/layout/:

spinner_view_dropdown.xml:




        

Answer 1

The layout you're defining is only used for an entry of your drop-down, not the drop-down itself. So setting the background to transparent won't have any effect on its background. But even if it would, setting the background to transparent would still have no effect, because a TextView (actually I believe any view) has a transparent background by default.

That being said, the right question would be: can you provide a custom layout for an entry's parent view (which is probably a List)? As far as I know, the answer is no, unfortunately.