Disabling Spinner in android

Question

I'm having problems when using android:enabled="false", it's not disabling the component in the case it's a spinner. Don't know if it's relevant, but it belongs to a layout that's part of a viewflipper.

Any hints or workarounds ?

Thanks

score 119 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 28 '16 at 21:11

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Disable or enable it before setting the adapter.

yourSpinner.setEnabled(false);   
yourSpinner.setClickable(false);  
yourSpinner.setAdapter(typeAdapter);

edited Feb 28 '16 at 21:11

CaptJak

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 06:12

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I haven't found that including `setClickable` is necessary, at least not on API 24. Has anyone found that it is on some other version of android? – Jon Dec 22 '16 at 21:24
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More importantly, as of today, spinners don't respect the clickable attribute at all, whether it was set in XML or in code. – Zonker.in.Geneva May 06 '20 at 11:46
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it has nothing to do with setting the adapter, you can do it before or after, it doesn't matter, why did you even mention it? – user924 May 20 '20 at 10:04
@user924 yes, it matters, after setting the adapter it does not work. – Christian Mar 22 '23 at 21:01

score 31 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '15 at 13:42

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It's not possible to enable/disable a Spinner in XML (yet). To do so you have to do it in code.

Here's an example:

Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.mySpinner);
spinner.setEnabled(false);

answered May 12 '15 at 13:42

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score 20 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 04 '14 at 05:20

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you can set android:clickable="false" in the xml to disable the spinner for click event.

edited Apr 04 '14 at 05:20

Kanaiya Katarmal

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answered Jan 06 '14 at 21:59

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Disabling using setEnabled(boolean) is more flexible than setting it inside XML – Erick Sep 10 '15 at 03:52
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@Erick I'm not agree with you, it depends on use case – Mehdi Dehghani Jul 26 '18 at 10:45
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There is an Android bug that doesn't respect `clickable` for spinners. – Zonker.in.Geneva May 06 '20 at 11:47
tested with android 11 and not working. – صلي علي محمد - Atef Farouk Nov 13 '21 at 04:08
This is also not work just you need to put it in class set enable = true or false – Mohamed Mohamed Taha Oct 03 '22 at 18:53

score 12 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 04 '14 at 05:23

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You can set this in the Java code itself, instead of in the XML, because the Spinner should implement setEnabled(boolean) from View.

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Kanaiya Katarmal

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answered May 13 '11 at 00:59

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Will try it. Any known bugs when setting it in the xml ? – xain May 13 '11 at 01:03
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Worked with most of the spinners but some of them remained enabled. – xain May 13 '11 at 01:32

score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 03 '23 at 21:20

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Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.mySpinner);
spinner.setEnabled(false);

Will not work

Actual code that will work ...

Spinner spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.mySpinner);
spinner.setEnabled = false;

edited Feb 03 '23 at 21:20

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answered Jan 30 '23 at 20:52

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