Spinner with Material Design - Down to API 9

This library provides you a Spinner with the Material style. You can use it like any regular Spinner. Add floating label text, hint and error messages.

Use this dependency in your build.gradle file to reference this library in your project

compile 'com.github.ganfra:material-spinner:1.1.1'

If you use other libraries requiring nineoldandroids and appcompat-v7 like MaterialEditText make sure to exclude them :

compile ('com.github.ganfra:material-spinner:1.1.1'){
        exclude group: 'com.nineoldandroids', module: 'library'
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'appcompat-v7'
}

In the xml :

<fr.ganfra.materialspinner.MaterialSpinner
        android:id="@+id/spinner"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        app:ms_multiline="false"
        app:ms_hint="hint"
        app:ms_enableFloatingLabel="false"
        app:ms_enableErrorLabel="false"
        app:ms_floatingLabelText="floating label"
        app:ms_baseColor="@color/base"
        app:ms_highlightColor="@color/highlight"
        app:ms_errorColor="@color/error"
        app:ms_typeface="typeface.ttf"
        app:ms_thickness="2dp"
        app:ms_hintColor="@color/hint"
        app:ms_arrowColor="@color/arrow"
        app:ms_arrowSize="16dp"
        app:ms_alignLabels="false"
        app:ms_floatingLabelColor="@color/floating_label"/>

You can set a hint and a floating label text. If no floating label text is provided, the hint will be set instead.

Java side, you use it like a regular spinner, setting an adapter to it.

 String[] ITEMS = {"Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Item 4", "Item 5", "Item 6"};
 ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, ITEMS);
 adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
 spinner = (MaterialSpinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
 spinner.setAdapter(adapter);

If you need to set an error message, you can do it the same way than with an EditText :

 //Activate
 spinner.setError("Error");
 //Desactivate
 spinner.setError(null);

You can choose to have a scrolling animation or to set the error message on multiple lines with the "ms_multiline" attribute in xml (default is true).

Copyright 2015 François Ganard

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