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Tofira
Tofira

Reputation: 1634

Android - Text is Pushed to the Left in a Spinner

I have a spinner with a style. The style only contains a background for the spinner. The problem is,that no matter which image I use for the background, the text of the spinner is always pushed to the left.

This is the declaration of the Spinner in the XML - 

<Spinner
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/minus"
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_below="@+id/female"
 android:id="@+id/spin"
 android:gravity="center"
 android:background="@drawable/spin"
 android:layout_marginTop="10dip">
 </Spinner>

Also, I get a warning under the android:gravity attribute that says it's an unknown XML attribute.

I can't figure why it does that.

Thanks

Upvotes: 18

Views: 29378

Answers (5)

Pramod Garg
Pramod Garg

Reputation: 2313

Use android:textAlignment="center" tag on spinner

 <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatSpinner
        android:id="@+id/state"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAlignment="center"/>

Upvotes: 6

Nikolai
Nikolai

Reputation: 347

I had this problem as well and the accepted answer did not work to me.

If this also applies to you, make sure that no parent layout overrides the gravity of the spinner item. In my case, I had to set the gravity of the entire Spinner to right.

Upvotes: 1

Camino2007
Camino2007

Reputation: 790

If you want to see the checkboxes in the dropdown menu while using your own layout:

ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
            mContext, R.array.room_list, R.layout.spinner_layout);
    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    yourSpinner.setAdapter(adapter);

Please notice the "android" before "R.layout...." in the line where you put the drop down view resource!

Upvotes: 0

Thane Anthem
Thane Anthem

Reputation: 4093

Continuing from my last comment above...

The following code modifies the Hello Spinner tutorial application to display the spinner text contents centered horizontally, as seen in the following two screenshots.

res/layout/my_spinner_textview.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    style="?android:attr/spinnerItemStyle"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center" />
public class HelloSpinner extends Activity
{
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
  {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
    ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.planets_array,
//        android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
        R.layout.my_spinner_textview);
//    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.my_spinner_textview);
    spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
    spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new MyOnItemSelectedListener());
  }

  //No other modification needed.

This hopefully provides enough direction to fix the problem.

Upvotes: 38

Tom O
Tom O

Reputation: 1800

Add gravity in your xml file...

<Spinner
 android:gravity="center">
</Spinner>

Or add gravity in your java code...

Spinner spinner = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner);
spinner.setGravity(17);
//17 = center

Upvotes: 4

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