Change Android Spinner 1st item background color

Question

I want to change a spinner's 1st dropdown menu background color. Is it possible? For example, I have 3 items menu for gender selection. 1) Select your gender 2) Male 3) Female. I want to show these 3 items in the spinner dropdown. I want to change the background of 1st item as light blue and the other 2 items should be white. Is it possible

Answer 1

How about use spinner Adapter?

for Example,

ArrayList<String> testarray = new ArrayList<String>();
    testarray.add("item0");
    testarray.add("item1");
    testarray.add("item2");
    testarray.add("item3");
    ArrayAdapter<String> spinnerAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item, testarray) {

       @Override      
       public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
           return position != 1;                             
       }

       @Override                
       public boolean areAllItemsEnabled() {
           return false;
       }

       @Override
       public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent){
           View v = convertView;
           if (v == null) {
               Context mContext = this.getContext();
               LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
               v = vi.inflate(R.layout.row, null);
           }

           TextView tv = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.spinnerTarget);
           tv.setText(testarray.get(position));

           switch (position) {
               case 0:
                   tv.setTextColor(Color.RED);  
                   break; 
               case 1:
                   tv.setTextColor(Color.BLUE);
                   break;
               default:
                   tv.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
                   break;
           }
           return v;  
       }              
    };

    pSpinner.setAdapter(spinnerAdapter); 

and this is simple_spinner_dropdown_item.xml for row.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/spinnerTarget"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="14pt" />

exmaple code change textColor. So you can try to change Background color