Custom Spinner with icon

Refer to the exercise "HelloAndroid with Spinner", it's a basic spinner with default format to display simple text in the spinner. Current exercise is modified to have custom display with icon in the spinner, actually it is Spinner version of another exercise "ListView, with icon".



Create a row.xml in /res/layout/. To to setup the layout on each row.

<?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"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/icon"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/weekofday"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>

main.xml layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  >
<TextView
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="@string/hello"
  />
<Spinner
  android:id="@+id/spinner"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  />
</LinearLayout>

Main Java code, AndroidCustomSpinner.java

package com.exercise.AndroidCustomSpinner;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Spinner;

public class AndroidCustomSpinner extends Activity {

String[] DayOfWeek = {"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
  "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"};

  /** Called when the activity is first created. */
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.main);
    
      Spinner mySpinner = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner);
      ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
        R.layout.row, R.id.weekofday, DayOfWeek);
      mySpinner.setAdapter(adapter);
  }
}

Download the files.

Related Article:
- Custom ArrayAdapter for Spinner, with different icons

* Please see the article "In-correct arrow icon on Spinner with custom ArrayAdapter"!