Custom Spinner Adapter

The simplest, I think :)

List<String> listOfItems = getListOfItems(); // returns ArrayList<String>

ArrayAdapter<String> spinnerAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, listOfItems);

targetSpinner.setAdapter(spinnerAdapter);

Ok, to simply put a list of string in a spinner shouldn't force us to implement an Adapter. That's a code blot and getting a bit pattern crazy, I think.

Trick is the simple_spinner_item id - damn, I like the R.id mechanism but this isn't intuitive from the docs.

Try

public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
            View row = inflater.inflate(yourRowlayout, parent,
                    false);
       TextView make = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.Make);
        Typeface myTypeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(),
                "fonts/gilsanslight.otf");
        v.setTypeface(myTypeFace);
        v.setText(itemList.get(position));
        return row;
    }


public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

        LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
                View row = inflater.inflate(yourRowlayout, parent,
                        false);
           TextView make = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.Make);
            Typeface myTypeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(),
                    "fonts/gilsanslight.otf");
            v.setTypeface(myTypeFace);
            v.setText(itemList.get(position));
            return row;
        }

Pass itemList as parameter in super class constructor

public CustomAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId,List<CharSequence> itemList) {

    super(context, textViewResourceId, itemList);
    this.context=context;
    this.itemList=itemList;
}