Spinner text colour is not getting changed

Question

I am trying to change the text color of spinner because my linear layout is white and the text colour is not visible on it . I have added the code for that but it's not working.

      <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/spinner1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="40dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
        android:background="#f3f3f3"
        android:entries="@array/secret_arrays"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:paddingLeft="5dp"
        android:prompt="@string/secret_prompt"
        android:spinnerMode="dialog"
        android:textColor="#000000" />

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9476665/how-to-change-spinner-text-size-and-text-color and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18312043/how-to-change-spinner-text-color — Rohit5k2, Aug 19 '15 at 10:36
@Rohit5k2 If you can see their solution they are doing it programmatically and i want to change using xml file only... I have seen them ..was not satisfied so posted my question..got it..!!!!! — Loren, Aug 19 '15 at 10:47
They are using a custom texview and you need to assign that to your spinner anyway. So its not exactly programmatically — Rohit5k2, Aug 19 '15 at 10:51
Your text displays on a textview that is set as a view inside spinner. I don't think its possible the way you are doing it. — Rohit5k2, Aug 19 '15 at 10:59
I got desired result when i Defined in my manifest some theme NoTitleBar.FullSCreen but it creates some other problem so i HAVE TO REMOVE IT. — Loren, Aug 19 '15 at 11:03
they are accessing spinner R.id spinner2 but they have defined textview — Loren, Aug 19 '15 at 11:07
They are just using a custom textview rather than default one. See first link. — Rohit5k2, Aug 19 '15 at 11:08
ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, R.layout.spinner_item,list); In this line from where spinner_item and list come from? — Loren, Aug 19 '15 at 11:12
yes. Create a layout xml with a textview and use that in this line. — Rohit5k2, Aug 19 '15 at 11:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 10:37

To use a custom style for spinner dropdown items:

Add in res/values/styles.xml:

 <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
</style>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle">@style/mySpinnerItemStyle</item>
   </style>
 <style name="mySpinnerItemStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.DropDownItem.Spinner">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/my_spinner_text_color</item>
     </style>

and define your custom color in res/values/colors.xml:

 <color name="my_spinner_text_color">#808080</color>

i tried thhis code.But still my text colour is white only. In androidmanifest do i need to manually define some theme for this code to work — Loren, Aug 19 '15 at 10:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 11:33

Try this:

styles.xml

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
    <item name="android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle">@style/SpinnerDropDownItemStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="SpinnerDropDownItemStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.DropDownItem.Spinner">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/spinner_text_color</item>
</style>

colors.xml

<color name="spinner_text_color">#000000</color>

AppManifest.xml

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name" 
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme"> //Add this if it does not exist

Spinner text colour is not getting changed

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