How to disable an item in a Spinner

Question

Is it possible to display particular entries in a Spinner list as disabled?

I.e., I want to always display a spinner with four entries (North, South, East, and West, say), but I want to be able to disable any one of these so that is appears greyed out and not selectable.

Is this possible, or will I have to recreate the list each time, leaving out the invalid entries?

possible duplicate of [android change text color of items in spinner](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5836254/android-change-text-color-of-items-in-spinner) — Jason Aller, Jun 20 '14 at 03:55
@Jason, it is the same, but mine was here first. Doesn't that make his the duplicate? — FrinkTheBrave, Jun 25 '14 at 07:53
it doesn't matter who's was the duplicate, only that duplicates exist and can be archived as such. — Corey, Oct 24 '17 at 18:04
**Not a duplicate**: changing the color and disabling an item are not related — SwiftArchitect, Oct 24 '18 at 22:32
it does matter because you have people that will downvote duplicates so it matters which one is the duplicate. — John Lord, Nov 19 '19 at 14:51

score 45 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '14 at 09:00

   // Create spinner month, and disable month < today
    List<CharSequence> listMonth = new ArrayList<CharSequence>();
    for (int m = 0; m < 12; m++) {
        if (m < 9) {
            listMonth.add("0" + (m + 1));
        } else {
            listMonth.add("" + (m + 1));
        }
    }
        // Create spinner item
    adapterMonth = new ArrayAdapter<CharSequence>(this,
            R.layout.layout_spinner_item, listMonth) {
         // Disable click item < month current
        @Override
        public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if (year <= max_year && position < max_month - 1) {
                return false;
            }
            return true;
        }
        // Change color item
        @Override
        public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView,
                ViewGroup parent) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            View mView = super.getDropDownView(position, convertView, parent);
            TextView mTextView = (TextView) mView;
            if (year <= max_year && position < max_month - 1) {
                mTextView.setTextColor(Color.GRAY);
            } else {
                mTextView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
            }
            return mView;
        }
    };

    adapterMonth
            .setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    spn2.setAdapter(adapterMonth);

That is correct but in instead of `TextView mTextView = (TextView) mView;` you have to use `TextView mTextView = (TextView) mView.findViewById(R.layout.layout_spinner_item);` — nima barati, Jan 10 '18 at 07:59

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '15 at 12:49

    public class MySpinnerAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    @Override
    public void isEnabled(int position) {
       return getItem(position).isEnabled(); 
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

      if(convertView == null) {
          convertView = View.inflate(parent.getContext(), R.layout.item, null);
      }
      if(!isEnabled(position)) {
          convertView.setEnabled(false);
          convertView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
             @Override
             public void onClick(View v) {
                //NO-OP: Just intercept click on disabled item
             }
          });
      }

      return convertView;
    }
}

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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Someone just posted a solution to your problem, refer to this old post.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 26 '10 at 12:13

Is this possible

It doesn't appear so. The way you would do that with ListView involves areAllItemsEnabled() and isEnabled(). However, those are methods on the ListAdapter interface, not the SpinnerAdapter interface. So, I suspect they will be ignored by a Spinner.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 29 '19 at 22:34

class SpinnerAdapter(context: Context, resource: Int, list: ArrayList<String>)
    : ArrayAdapter<String>(context, resource, list) {

        override fun isEnabled(position: Int): Boolean {
            // select position to disable 
            return position != 0
        }

}

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