Spinner with several selectable items per row ? (gridview?)

Asked Jan 09 '18 at 08:51

Active Jan 16 '18 at 08:10

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I have a Spinner with a lot of items inside, which makes the user scroll too much to find the item he/she wants.

Since items are mainly 4 or 5 letters, I could easily put several per row, like 2 or 3 for a start.

I tried to play with adapters but failed, and I think the logic behind this idea is flawed (1 row == 1 item).

A workaround could be to get rid of the Spinner and make a simple button grid dialog, but it seems quite an overkill to me.

How can I make a multicolumn clickable Spinner ?

Here are the somehow relevant posts I saw :

How to display a two column ListView in Android?, Multiple Columns on a Spinner?, MultiColumn List with drop down spinner, which are not really the problem I face (items in different columns are supposed to be independantly)
Items in multiple columns - spinner which answer doesn't work.
Android Spinner items as a grid which answer is interesting but I cannot understand how to use OP code (gives me a grid of gridviews)

edited Jan 16 '18 at 08:10

asked Jan 09 '18 at 08:51

Dan Chaltiel

Instead of spinner, maybe you can go for grid view in a dialog – Geethakrishna Juluri Jan 09 '18 at 08:54
As @GeethakrishnaJuluri sad, why not create a fragment who extends DialogFragment, and make the layout look like Grid? – sharp Jan 09 '18 at 08:55
Yeah that what I said, I could but it seems an overkill. But maybe it's not. – Dan Chaltiel Jan 09 '18 at 08:55
– Akhil Jan 14 '18 at 16:34
@Akhil Sorry but I have no idea what this could mean. Could you elaborate ? – Dan Chaltiel Jan 15 '18 at 18:45

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