Change colour of small triangle on spinner in android

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Yawar picture Yawar · Sep 18, 2014 · Viewed 51.4k times · Source

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How can I change the colour of small triangle at the bottom right corner of spinner like shown in the image? It is showing default grey colour right now. like this

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Answer

toni picture toni · Feb 12, 2015

The best and easiest solution:

spinner.getBackground().setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.red), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);

Other solution (Thanks to Simon) if you don't want change all Spinners:

Drawable spinnerDrawable = spinner.getBackground().getConstantState().newDrawable();

spinnerDrawable.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.red), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
    spinner.setBackground(spinnerDrawable);
}else{
    spinner.setBackgroundDrawable(spinnerDrawable);
}

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