Remove Spacing or Padding in android Spinner

Question

I\'m using android spinner and edittext from support lib v21. I would like to align text to left the same like edittext as shown in figure. But, deafult spinner include spac

Answer 1

If yo don't want to mess in Java Code and have it in styles

Search for this file (Cmd+Shift+O) abc_spinner_textfield_background_material.xml

and copy to your project. Remove all inset values from root element and refer the file as background of your spinner.

In my case it looks like this (drawable/spinner_background.xml)

and in my styles.xml I use it this way