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

I had a similar problem, except getChildView returned null for me, so the excepted solution did not work. I believe this was caused because I set the adapter in XML, and this ignored the "clickable" and "enabled" attributes.

This was my XML:

The solution for me was to remove the "enabled" and "clickable" attributes and put the following code in my "onCreate"

spinner.setEnabled(false);

Hope it helps someone!