Spinner inner padding is larger on Android 6.0.1

Question

Intro:

With the new release of Android 6.0.1, seems like Android made some changes on the Spinner component because by default, the inner padding ar

Answer 1

I had the same issue and my plan was to rollback the 6.0.1 update for v23 only.

1. Make sure your Spinner has a style attached to it. For example style named as Widget.Spinner in example below:

2. Create (if already does not exist) styles.xml under values-v23 directory (for changes will be applied to API v23 only). For example, see Widget.Spinner style definition example below:

The style's parent is Widget.AppCompat.Spinner and it redefines it's android:background with the one we will be rolling back from 6.0.1 source.

Note, that if you're targeting other versions too, you will need to add a default styles.xml under values directory with entry