Question

This is the Spinner Code:

<com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.IcsSpinner
    android:id="@+id/mSpinner"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/bg_grey" />

bg_grey is the light grey color background in the 1st image.

TextView code dropdown_text.xml:

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/mDropDown"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="30dp"
    android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    android:padding="2dp"
    android:textColor="@color/text_dark_grey">
</TextView>

in the Activity:

ArrayAdapter<String> ,Adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(mActivity.this, R.layout.dropdown_text, mArray);

InActive state of the Spinner:

This is what i wanted. But,

Active state of the Spinner:

Why is the background of the DropDown color dark grey. I want it to be light grey as in the 1st image.

Thank You

Answer 1

Change the background of your textView to:

<android:background="@color/bg_grey">

That doesn’t explain why it’s dark gray, but will fix it.

I had some similar issue with a ListView, on which the background color of the items were changing randomly. When I changed the background color of the ListView item they stayed as I wanted. Still a mistery to me.