How do I change the text style of a spinner?

Question

I'm creating a spinner in my layout xml files and setting an string array to this spinner. If I change the textstyle of the spinner the text is not affected by the changes.

I read in the googlegroups that a spinner has no text and therefore the textstyle can not be changed and I have to change the style of the textview that is shown in the spinner. But how can I do that. Preferably in my xml file.

Answer 1

When you create the Adapter that backs the Spinner you can set a layout for the spinner item.

spinner.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this, R.id.some_text_view));

You can style some_text_view the way you want.

<TextView android:id="@+id/some_text_view" android:textStyle="bold" />