Android Spinner Set Dropdown Text Direction To Rtl

How to set spinner dropdown text direction to rtl? I know for regular texts we can use android:textDirection='rtl' but it does not work for spinner dropdown text. Should I implemen

Solution 1:

This will fix the issue.. enjoy

android:textAlignment="viewStart"

Solution 2:

Try This -

Add below code in Activity

Spinnerspinner= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, 
R.array.planets_array,
//        android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
    R.layout.textview);
//    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.textview);
spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(newMyOnItemSelectedListener());

textview.xml

<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="?android:attr/spinnerItemStyle"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:gravity="center" />

Change Gravity as per your requirement... Hope this will help...

Solution 3:

First of all make sure that you enabled rtl support in AndroidManifest.xml

<application...android:supportsRtl="true"...>

after that use this in your Spinner definition :

android:layoutDirection="rtl"android:textDirection="rtl"