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

Maybe this is the simplest way and also it just work. To decrease left padding of Spinner, you can use set padding left to minus so it will move to the left. For example android:layout_marginLeft="-8dp" This is not a best practice, only a simple hack. Here is a code sample:

Hope this helps.