How to set text size of Spinner only, not the items

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I have a spinner control that is scaled up 200% to make it easer to use.
This means the text is also scaled up, so I need to reduce the size of the text to half size. I can do this by using xml, but I need to do it in code.
I can not find any way to do this programmatically?
Just to be clear I do not need to scale the drop down items, just the control itself.

Thanks.

Posted 9-Apr-15 4:44am

__John_

Updated 9-Apr-15 5:13am

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Richard MacCutchan 9-Apr-15 10:58am

If you check the XML you should see that it is scaled by use of a property. Find that property in the documentation for the control, and you should be able to figure out how to do it in code.

__John_ 9-Apr-15 11:11am

Thanks Richard, I can know the scale factor by using getScaleX and getScaleY, I can determine the text size required, but Spinner has no setTextSize method.
I guess there is a TextView in there somewhere, but I have been unsuccessful trying to get access to it.

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