How to change text color in spinner without using textview

Question

I want to change text color for spinner without using textView, I have already searched and found some tutorials Android: Where is the Spinner widget's text color attribute hiding?

but the main thing is they have used textView.

<Spinner 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
     android:layout_width="0dp" 
     android:layout_weight="1" 
     android:entries="@array/Gender_Selection_arrays" 
     android:prompt="@string/Gender_Selection"
     android:id="@+id/gendersel"
     android:popupBackground="#67656c"/>

I know this code is not to change text color.

I have no idea how to do that,please guide me for doing the same.

Any help would be appreciable.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '15 at 06:50

I got solution for this, Create a new xml "spinner_style.xml"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TextView 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:textColor="@color/Black" />

And fix this layout as your spinner style in your activity:

   ArrayAdapter<String > gender_adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String> (getActivity(), R.layout.spinner_style,gender_spinner );

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '15 at 12:01

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Your Spinner

<Spinner 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_width="0dp" 
    android:layout_weight="1" 
    android:entries="@array/Gender_Selection_arrays" 
    android:prompt="@string/Gender_Selection"
    android:id="@+id/gendersel"
    style="@style/mySpinnerItemStyle"
    android:popupBackground="#67656c"/>

mySpinnerItemStyle (Add this to styles.xml)

<style name="mySpinnerItemStyle" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.Spinner">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/my_spinner_text_color</item>
</style>

And finally in colors.xml

<color name="my_spinner_text_color">#FFFFFF</color>

mySpinnerItemStyle inherits from Base.Widget.AppCompat.Spinner and in that android:textColor attribute changes the color of the spinner text

answered Jul 20 '15 at 12:01

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thank you for your answer but your answer is working only for changing popupbackground color, not text color. – Ashish Jaiswal Jul 20 '15 at 12:19
try `android:foreground` instead of `android:textColor` – rusted brain Jul 20 '15 at 12:24
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Maybe this will solve your problem http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6159113/android-where-is-the-spinner-widgets-text-color-attribute-hiding?lq=1 – capt.swag Jul 20 '15 at 12:31

How to change text color in spinner without using textview

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