How to set android:paddingLeft,
android:paddingTop,
android:paddingRight,
android:paddingBottom on spinner text.

Padding attribute is used to set automatically text margin inside a view, so text will automatically adjust itself by getting space. So we can also set padding on spinner text by modifying its textview_with_padding.xml layout file. So here is the complete step by step tutorial for How to add padding to spinner text in android programmatically.

How to add padding to spinner text in android programmatically.

Code for MainActivity.java file.

 package com.addpaddingspinnertext_android_examples.com;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Spinner;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

Spinner SpinnerWithPadding;
 
 String[] spinnerItems = new String[]{
 "APPLE",
 "MANGO",
 "BANANA",
 "PAPAYA",
 "WATER MELON",
 
 };
 
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
 
 SpinnerWithPadding = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
 
 ArrayAdapter<String> spinnerArrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(
 this,R.layout.textview_with_padding,spinnerItems );
 
 spinnerArrayAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.textview_with_padding);
 
 SpinnerWithPadding.setAdapter(spinnerArrayAdapter);
 
 }
}

Code for activity_main.xml layout file.

 <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent"
 android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
 android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
 android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
 android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
 tools:context="com.addpaddingspinnertext_android_examples.com.MainActivity" >

 <Spinner
 android:id="@+id/spinner1"
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
 android:layout_centerVertical="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

Code for textview_with_padding.xml file.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <TextView
 xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 android:id="@+id/textView1"
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
 android:layout_centerVertical="true"
 android:textColor="#000301"
 android:paddingLeft="10dp"
 android:paddingTop="12dp"
 android:paddingRight="10dp"
 android:paddingBottom="12dp"
 android:textSize="25dp" />

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