Question

I’ve created a custom spinner using my own ProjectSpinnerAdapter. I’ve also got another class which just inflates the layout but hasn’t been implemented yet so is still using the standard spinner.

I can’t seem to get my custom spinner to align the same way as the standard spinner.

I’m also having problems when the length of the item is wider than the table cell as you can see below. Is there not a way to truncate the options if they are over a certain length ? – This doesn’t seem like its the correct way to fix this but I can’t directly set the width of the widget as this is controlled via the table layout.*

**Fixed, See update*

Screenshots

The standard spinner aligns perfectly with the Button it sits next to (they are both contained within the same TableRow)

layout

<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:stretchColumns="1" >

<TableRow>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/selectButton"
        android:text="@string/show" />

    <Spinner android:id="@+id/projectSpinner" />
</TableRow>

spinner_list_item.xml (Uses maxLength)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:id="@+id/title_text_view"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent"
          android:maxLength="15"
          android:gravity="center"/>


</LinearLayout>

Update

The issue was the layout of the spinner item, in my custom layout spinner_list_item.xml I’d specified a layout all I needed was the textview

spinner_list_item.xml (Uses maxLength)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/title_text_view"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:maxLength="15" />

Answer 1

If I may ask, why did you choose the TableLayout? I think the same could be achieved with a RelativeLayout and layout_toRightOf layout_below, etc. Or a LinearLayout with a weightSum and gravity each child having a layout_weight.

I’m not going to give you a solution that changes your entire layout though ;), but I tested this and this seems to work for me.

<TableRow>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/selectButton"
        android:maxLength="10"
        android:text="sdadadasdfffffffffffffffffffffffff"/>

    <Spinner
        android:id="@+id/projectSpinner"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:lines="1"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true" />
</TableRow>

Hopefully this works and it’s a better way than setting a fixed string length

edit

I’m not sure why you’re populating the spinner the way you are, but you can try:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:id="@+id/title_text_view"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_centerInParent="true"
          android:maxLength="15"/>


</RelativeLayout>

android:gravity is wrong too, needs to be android:layout_gravity (but that’s LinearLayout only

Last edit 😀

try using the default layouts

view = vi.inflate(android.R.layout.spinner_list_item, null);

then

((TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.text1)).setText(title);