How do I make a Spinner's “disabled” state look disabled?

Question

When I disable my Spinner it looks almost exactly like it did prior to being disabled, i.e.

Before

Answer 1

For future reference, if you're using Kotlin, you can make use of extension functions, and provide a custom behaviour for disabled elements:

fun Spinner.forceEnabled(isEnabled : Boolean){
    setEnabled(isEnabled)
    getChildAt(0)?.let{ childView ->
        childView.alpha = if (this.isEnabled) 1.0f else 0.33f
    }
    invalidate()
}

someSpinner.forceEnabled(true)

This will allow to set custom properties to spinner children views, as the spinner is being disabled, without need for subclassing. Be cautious, as extension functions are resolved statically!

Answer 2

One clever way of making spinners look disabled is to lower the transparency.

Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.my_spinner);
spinner.setEnabled(false);
spinner.setAlpha(0.5f);

Answer 3

I found this to be the best solution to the same question that was previously answered by @JSPDeveloper01: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20401876/8041634

Since Android doesn't gray out the spinner when it has been set to disabled, he suggests creating a custom method that uses the .setAlpha command on the spinner, which grays out the text within it. Brilliant.

Answer 4

((Spinner) spnr).getSelectedView().setEnabled(false);
((Spinner) spnr).setEnabled(false);

spnr is my Spinner object which refers to the XML view file, by findViewById(...).

Answer 5

I've tried the following, and it's working as expected for me:

_userMembership.setEnabled(false);
_userMembership.setClickable(false);
_userMembership.setAlpha((float)0.7);
_userMembership.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);

Answer 6

Don't know if you still need this but there is a way. I've been struggling with this issue myself. I ended up doing something like this:

((Spinner) spinner).getSelectedView().setEnabled(false);
spinner.setEnabled(false);

What this actually does is disable the spinner and the selected item that is shown. Most likely the selected item is a TextView and it should show as a disabled TextView.

I am using this and it works. But for some reason unknown to me it is not as "greyed-out" as other disabled views. It still looks disabled though. Try it out.