Spinner - different text of an element in a popup list / list

Question

I have a spinner in my Android app that allows users to select countries. The counter displays the ISO2 code of the selected country for complexity. Here is an example:

As soon as the user opens a pop-up selection list, I want to display more verbose text for each item. Therefore, instead of displaying only “AT”, the element should read “AT - Austria”, as shown in the following screenshot.

Any ideas how I could achieve this?

Answer 1

The SpinnerAdapter has a getDropDownView method that can return another view for an extended state.