Android: How to do create custom EditText with a clickable arrow on the right

Question

I would like to have an EditText with one modification: on the right (still inside the EditText) there is an arrow pointing downwards, that I can set OnClickListener to. So when user clicks on the arrow it displays a menu. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Sounds like a combo box. If you look at the "Building Custom Components" section of the Dev Guide, they mention combo box briefly, but give details on how to build any custom component.

Answer 2

Do you mean something like this ?

see image

Add the arrow by setting the drawable right attribute

  android:drawableRight="@drawable/right"

to your EditText. Then you would need to set an OnTouchListener to get the events.

Answer 3

I did this by putting EditText and a Button into RelativeLayout, the Button (which has custom background drawable) is overlapping the EditBox. When user clicks on it, the EditBox doesn't receive the click event.