How to customize a spinner with floating text

Aju Published at Dev

Aju

I want to customize Spinner with a floating text like in EditText with floating label. Please check the reference image below:

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Now I am thinking to put a TextView just above Spinner so that it looks like in the image. If I am wrong or anybody have different opinion please help me.

UPDATE

Solution: Use following library to use material theme on pre-lollipop https://github.com/rey5137/material

Farbod Salamat-Zadeh

As I wrote in this answer to my own question...

I have created a compound View component which displays a label above the Spinner. The text for the label can be set using XML or in Java.

The component has the key features of a Spinner (not all of them) as well as looking similar to the TextInputLayout component.

I have named it a LabelledSpinner, and it is available as part of my UsefulViews Android library on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License.

To use it, add the library dependency in your build.gradle file:

compile 'com.satsuware.lib:usefulviews:+'

Examples of its usage are available at the GitHub repository (both a sample app, and a usage guide).