Question

How to show a spinner or autocomplete textview on a popup window?
In my application i need to show a popup window which contains spinner or a custom dropdown list. If it is not possible over a popup window, what is the alternative solution?

Answer 1

yes its possible. you need to design your custom layout and call that layout in popup window

For suppose this is my pop up code.

 private void showPopUp()
 {
    final AlertDialog.Builder helpBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    helpBuilder.setTitle("");

    LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
    final View PopupLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.jobselection, null);
    helpBuilder.setView(PopupLayout);

    final AlertDialog helpDialog = helpBuilder.create();
    helpDialog.show();

    spn =   (Spinner)PopupLayout.findViewById(R.id.spn);
    caneclbtn = (ImageButton)PopupLayout.findViewById(R.id.cancelBtn);
    selectallbtn    =   (ImageButton)PopupLayout.findViewById(R.id.selectBtn);
    clearallbtn     =   (ImageButton)PopupLayout.findViewById(R.id.clearallBtn);
    jobentries      =   (Button)PopupLayout.findViewById(R.id.entries);

    jobList         =   (ListView)PopupLayout.findViewById(R.id.list);

    //ur code here. You can add your spineer with items.
}

In this block you can write what you require. good luck