Change text color of selected item in spinner

Question

How can I change the font color of the selected item in a spinner?

I am able to change the background color of the selected item, the color of the dropdown item etc,

Answer 1

You don't need java code for background color change in Android 2.3v. Just add android:background="#F0F8FF" to your spinner in xml file.

Answer 2

See my answer to a similar question here. My answer is similar to Priya's, except it properly sets the default selected item's text color as well (so there's no lag with the wrong color when waiting for the spinner to automatically select the default item, which occurs after the user interface is already on-screen).

Answer 3

I know this is old question, but I had big problem on changing color of selected item in spinner in TabLayout and this really worked for me:

spinner.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                ((TextView) spinner.getSelectedView()).setTextColor(Color.WHITE); //change to your color
            }
        });

Answer 4

try implementing onItemSelected in your OnItemSelectedListener for change the text color of spinner selected item

public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) { 
    int index = adapterView.getSelectedItemPosition();
    ((TextView) spinner.getSelectedView()).setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.Blue)); //<----

Answer 5

using selector as text color .

create color_selector.xml in drawable like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
     <item android:state_pressed="true"
           android:color="#000000" /> <!-- pressed -->
     <item android:state_focused="true"
           android:color="#000000" /> <!-- focused -->
     <item android:color="#FFFFFF" /> <!-- default -->
 </selector>

and in textview

<TextView 
   android:textColor="@drawable/color_selector"/>

Answer 6

mSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
      @Override
      public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {
           ((TextView) adapterView.getChildAt(0)).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
}