Hi,

Are you using a custom theme for your entire application's activities to
customize buttons? Are you using a theme at all?



2011/1/17 michael <[email protected]>

> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion Kostya. But my spinner does not use any
> custom styling whatsoever. It is shown in a dialog which is built
> using AlertBuilder. The only custom styling in the app is for buttons,
> which I don't think should have any effect on spinners.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Incidentally, about 6% of the sessions in my app come from Droid X
> users, so I would be surprised if they all experienced this problem (I
> have only received this complaint from a single user).
>
> Cheers,
> Michael.
>
> On Jan 17, 7:07 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't have one either, but I've seen screenshots of my program on that
> > device, done by someone for a review.
> >
> > See the top-left corner of the screenshot in section 8:
> >
> > http://www.simplehelp.net/2010/11/30/how-to-manage-your-android-wifi-...
> >
> > The spinners in that screenshot use my own backgrounds, which are light,
> and
> > work with the default text color from Theme.Light, which is dark. But on
> the
> > X, the text color is light - I guess their customized spinner backgrounds
> > are dark.
> >
> > What I'm getting at is - does your spinner use any kind of custom (=
> > supplied in your application) drawable, layout, or color?
> >
> > -- Kostya
> >
> > 2011/1/17 michael <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi Kumar and Kostya, thanks for your quick replies.
> >
> > > Kumar, I did wonder if text colour could be an issue, but surely the
> > > standard styling should work consistently throughout all devices and
> > > OS versions, right? Note that I have not set a custom text colour.
> >
> > > Kostya, this is indeed on Droid X -- do you have any insights for
> > > that? I don't know which Android OS version (the user has not replied
> > > to my requests for this info). I also don't have a Droid X available
> > > so can't reproduce.
> >
> > > Best,
> > > Michael.
> >
> > > On Jan 17, 6:41 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Is this on the Droid X ?
> >
> > > > 2011/1/17 Kumar Bibek <[email protected]>
> >
> > > > > Well, it's just a problem of wrong text color on a custom UI from
> the
> > > > > manufacturer. Ask the user for the model of his phone and the OS
> > > version. I
> > > > > am sure, you can reproduce the problem on a similar device.
> >
> > > > > Say, for example, your spinner items text color is black, which you
> > > have
> > > > > mentioned, and the default spinner layout that the custom UI uses
> has a
> > > > > black background, do you see the problem?
> >
> > > > > Kumar Bibek
> > > > >http://techdroid.kbeanie.com
> > > > >http://www.kbeanie.com
> >
> > > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:50 PM, michael <
> > > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > >> Hello,
> >
> > > > >> One of my users has reported a mysterious behaviour with a spinner
> > > > >> which I so far have been unable to reproduce. When pressing the
> > > > >> spinner, a list of blank (empty) items appears. Only when
> selecting an
> > > > >> item does the spinner display the relevant text associated with
> the
> > > > >> item. The number of blank lines correctly corresponds to the
> expected
> > > > >> number of items in the spinner.
> >
> > > > >> Here is the code I use for populating the spinner, which is
> executed
> > > > >> in the onPostExecute method of an AsyncTask:
> >
> > > > >> String[] spinnerArray = new String[]{...}; // array contents
> omitted.
> > > > >> ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(ctx,
> > > > >> android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, spinnerArray);
> > > > >> spinner.setAdapter(adapter);
> > > > >> spinner.setSelection(0);
> >
> > > > >> This is pretty standard as far as I can tell.
> >
> > > > >> Has anybody encountered behaviour similar to what is described
> above?
> > > > >> Any idea what might be going wrong?
> >
> > > > >> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > > > >> Best,
> > > > >> Michael.
> >
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