I need to animate an icon of an arrow when opening and closing a spinner in Android.
I can rotate the arrow when opening the spinner: I just put a setOnTouchListener
on the Spinner
.
The problem comes, when the dropdown is closed, or hidden, because I don't know how to set a listener or something like that on that action.
Anybody has an idea about how to do this, if possible?
Thanks a lot in advance.
I do not know why Google can not do it for so long, but you can solve the problem this way:
You must override the protected method "onDetachedFromWindow" for Spinner, make it as public method, and calling forth it by clicking on the item in your CustomSpinnerAdapter.
For example:
public class CustomSpinner extends Spinner
{
Context context = null;
public CustomSpinner(Context context)
{
super(context);
}
public CustomSpinner(Context context, int mode)
{
super(context, mode);
}
public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{
super(context, attrs);
}
public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
{
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle, int mode)
{
super(context, attrs, defStyle, mode);
}
@Override public void onDetachedFromWindow()
{
super.onDetachedFromWindow();
}
}
I hope you know how to create SpinnerCustomAdapter and insert this CustomSpinner in xml.
You can do something like this,
boolean bflag=true;//declare it as public
spinner.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent arg1) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(bflag==true)
{
//first animation code goes here
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "on", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
bflag=false;
}
else
{
//second animation code goes here
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "off", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
bflag=true;
}
return false;
}
});
try this way
spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
// // called when spiner will closed
}
@Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
// called when spiner will closed
}
});