How do I make a Spinner's “disabled” state look disabled?

Question

When I disable my Spinner it looks almost exactly like it did prior to being disabled, i.e.

Before

Answer 1

One clever way of making spinners look disabled is to lower the transparency.

Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.my_spinner);
spinner.setEnabled(false);
spinner.setAlpha(0.5f);