If you like developing Android, you must "hate" Spinners. I had countless issues with Spinners and I decided to make a new one. BetterSpinner is using AutoCompleteTextView to do what a Spinner really should do.

The demo is a showcase of the functionality of the library.

Or

Download the APK file here: BetterSpinner.Demo-1.1.0.apk

BetterSpinner can be used just like AutoCompleteTextView.

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                 android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, COUNTRIES);
         BetterSpinner textView = (BetterSpinner)
                 findViewById(R.id.countries_list);
         textView.setAdapter(adapter);
     }

     private static final String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] {
         "Belgium", "France", "Italy", "Germany", "Spain"
     };

or you can also store you arrays in arrays.xml and do something like this in your code

String[] COUNTRIES = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.countries_list);

For usage of MaterialEditText 2.0.3, check it out here

If you want to use material style AutoCompleteTextView, simply replace BetterSpinner with MaterialBetterSpinner.

BetterSpinner is now pushed to Maven Central as an AAR, so you just need to add the following dependency to your build.gradle. gradle:

For normal look use (BetterSpinner):

compile 'com.weiwangcn.betterspinner:library:1.1.0'

If you have appcompat-v7 in your dependencies make sure to exclude it :

compile ('com.weiwangcn.betterspinner:library:1.1.0') {
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'appcompat-v7'
}

For material look use (MaterrialBetterSpinner):

compile 'com.weiwangcn.betterspinner:library-material:1.1.0'

If you have appcompat-v7 and MaterialEditText in your dependencies make sure to exclude them :

compile ('com.weiwangcn.betterspinner:library-material:1.1.0') {
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'appcompat-v7'
    exclude group: 'com.rengwuxian.materialedittext', module: 'library'
}

Note: library-material has included MaterialEditText 2.0.3.

Thanks my girlfriend Wanrong(wt263@msstate.edu) for the app icon :)

Thanks Matt for his inspiration

MaterialEditText

Copyright 2015 Wei Wang

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