Question

I am using btn_default for my background of a spinner and that works nicely. I would now like to make the btn_default transparent. I have read about maybe using nine patch to make my own button based on btn_default but I can’t find btn_default.png anywhere. I am not sure if this is how to do it so if someone explain how to make the btn_default transparent it would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

here is what I ended doing which was to modify the btn_default_normal and removed the background and saved it as btn_default_normal_invisible. transparency was probably a poor explanation because i really just wanted it all gone so the spinner would look like othe text labels that were not spinners

     <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/m1_ss_spinner" 
        android:background="@drawable/btn_default_normal_invisible"  
     />