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How to change color or drawable of Spinner arrow

Just want to change the color of the Spinner arrow (@color or @drawable)

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This is the only code that did something and it make the drawable the entire background of the spinner. (I've tried many other ideas with no luck)

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
...
<item name="android:spinnerStyle">@style/SpinnerColor</item>
</style>

<style name="SpinnerColor" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.Spinner">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/ic_add_white_24dp</item>
</style>

Here is how I am inflating my Spinner

mNavigationSpinner = new Spinner(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
mNavigationSpinner.setAdapter(spinnerAdapter);

mNavigationSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
toolbar.addView(mNavigationSpinner);
Solution

  • This is my fix.

    It was a style call in the Toolbar that I had forgotten about.

    In toolbar.xml

    This

    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

    Change to this

    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat"
app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

    Looks identical to this