Question

In Android 1.6, upon tapping a spinner (drop-down menu), radio buttons appear next to the spinner options. How do I remove those radio buttons so that just the option text remains?

Answer 1

Just to remove the radio buttons, you don’t need your own adapter class.

Create a dropdown_item.xml in layout

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:id="@android:id/text1"
    style="?android:attr/spinnerDropDownItemStyle"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:ellipsize="marquee" />

then make the following call in the code.

arrayAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.dropdown_item);

The default spinner dropdown item is a CheckedTextView which has the radio button. Here you replace it with a TextView.