Spinner in Edittext

Question

I have an Edittext with a drawable [v] at the right side of it to make it looks like a spinner. Now, how can i achieve this? I will set the edittext as clickable then when I click it, a dialogfragment will pop up with a list (looks like a spinner option)

Is it possible?

   <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/tilAppCategory"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
    >

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/edtAppCategory"
        android:hint="Category"
        android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
        android:textColorHint="@color/textColorHint"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:gravity="center|start"
        android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
        android:textColor="@color/colorPrimaryDark"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:drawableEnd="@drawable/icon_spinner_down"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:clickable="true"
        />

</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Answer 1

You can do like below in your XML file: Here android:drawableRight you can set left right top and bottom icon in EditText and TextView in andorid

<EditText
android:id="@+id/name"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_menu_share"/>

For showing list like spinner use AutoCompleteTextView

Android AutoCompleteTextView completes the word based on the reserved words, so no need to write all the characters of the word.

Android AutoCompleteTextView is a editable text field, it displays a list of suggestions in a drop down menu from which user can select only one suggestion or value.

Android AutoCompleteTextView is the subclass of EditText class. The MultiAutoCompleteTextView is the subclass of AutoCompleteTextView class.

Android AutoCompleteTextView Example Tutorial

OR

you can use Android PopupWindow Listview example .

/**
  * handle header listview onclick event
  */
 private OnClickListener showPopupWindow() {
  return new OnClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
    PopupWindow popUp = popupWindowsort();
    popUp.showAsDropDown(v, 0, 0); // show popup like dropdown list
   }
  };
 }

 /**
  * show popup window method reuturn PopupWindow
  */
 private PopupWindow popupWindowsort() {

  // initialize a pop up window type
  popupWindow = new PopupWindow(this);

  ArrayList<String> sortList = new ArrayList<String>();
  sortList.add("A to Z");
  sortList.add("Z to A");
  sortList.add("Low to high price");

  ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,
    sortList);
  // the drop down list is a list view
  ListView listViewSort = new ListView(this);

  // set our adapter and pass our pop up window contents
  listViewSort.setAdapter(adapter);

  // set on item selected
  listViewSort.setOnItemClickListener(onItemClickListener());

  // some other visual settings for popup window
  popupWindow.setFocusable(true);
  popupWindow.setWidth(250);
  // popupWindow.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.white));
  popupWindow.setHeight(WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

  // set the listview as popup content
  popupWindow.setContentView(listViewSort);

  return popupWindow;
 }

find complete implementation in below links:

Android PopupWindow Listview example .