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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 9904

How to change color or drawable of Spinner arrow

Just want to change the color of the Spinner arrow (@color or @drawable)

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This is the only code that did something and it make the drawable the entire background of the spinner. (I've tried many other ideas with no luck)

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
...
<item name="android:spinnerStyle">@style/SpinnerColor</item>
</style>

<style name="SpinnerColor" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.Spinner">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/ic_add_white_24dp</item>
</style>

Here is how I am inflating my Spinner

mNavigationSpinner = new Spinner(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
mNavigationSpinner.setAdapter(spinnerAdapter);

mNavigationSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
toolbar.addView(mNavigationSpinner);

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9400

Answers (3)

Rk215 Tech
Rk215 Tech

Reputation: 542

okay. you can change the dropdown arrow color using below code

in your styles.xml file just add this attribute and you good to go.

 <item name="android:colorControlNormal">@color/colorAccent</item>

for example.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
       <item name="android:colorControlNormal">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>

Upvotes: 1

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 9904

This is my fix.

It was a style call in the Toolbar that I had forgotten about.

In toolbar.xml

This

app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

Change to this

app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat"
app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

Looks identical to this

Upvotes: 2

logcat
logcat

Reputation: 1

Try changing 

<item name="android:spinnerStyle">@style/SpinnerColor</item>

to

<item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">@style/SpinnerColor</item>

where the 

<item name="android:background">@drawable/ic_add_white_24dp</item>

in SpinnerColor style is a StateListDrawable. Items of the StateListDrawable are 9-patch drawables.

Upvotes: 0

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