How to use Android Spinner like a drop-down list

Question

It\'s taken me quite a while to get my head around the Android Spinner. After several failed implementation attempts, and after reading many questions partially similar to m

Answer 1

I worked through several of the issues mentioned in this thread before I realized that the PopupMenu widget is what I really wanted. That was easy to implement without the hacks and workarounds needed to change the functionality of a Spinner. PopupMenu was relatively new when this thread was started in 2011, but I hope this helps someone searching for similar functionality now.