Android: Drawing a button as a spinner

Question

I have a custom android view that extends \'Button\' and acts as a multi-level spinner - when it is pressed it displays a series of spinner-like dialogs that allow a user to

Answer 1

You can define the android:background attribute on your button to use a drawable that looks like the spinner. I did this by creating a 9-patch image for the spinner, putting it in my res/drawable folder, and then adding a style for my custom spinner button:

For your button, add the style attribute to the XML layout for your layout: