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

1. Create a text-view layout view_spinner_text_view.xml:

2. Create the adapter by providing the above layout:

       ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
           context,
           R.array.my_values,
           R.layout.view_spinner_text_view // <-- this is for the spinner itself
       ).also { adapter ->
           adapter.setDropDownViewResource(
               android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item // <-- this is for the dropped-down items (you can customize this one as well)
           )
           spinner.adapter = adapter
       }