title: Spinner does not wrap text -- is this an Android bug?
body: <p>If the text of a <code>Spinner</code> item is too long to fit into a single line, the text is not wrapped but cut off. This is <em>only</em> the case for <strong>API level >= 11</strong>. Here are screenshots of Android <strong>4.2.2</strong> (left) which shows the wrong behavior and Android <strong>2.3.3</strong> (right) where it looks as expected.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Marym.png" width="320" /> 
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/xsXtn.png" width="320" /> </p>
  
  <p><code>android:singleLine="false"</code> simply gets ignored here. So as all other tries like <code>android:lines</code>, <code>android:minLines</code>, etc. The <code>TextView</code> somehow seems to be much wider than the window width. </p>
  
  <p>I saw other people having the same problem, but no one could find a solution. So, is this a system bug? I don't think this inconsistency between the OS versions can be intended.</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <h3>Please note:</h3>
  
  <p>There were some answers suggesting relatively simple solutions.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Writing a custom <code>Adapter</code> and overriding <code>getView()</code> as well as <code>getDropDownView()</code>. This is not the solution here, because at this point, there is still the original problem: How does the layout have to look like to handle proper line wrapping?</p></li>
  <li><p>Wrapping the <code>TextView</code> of the drop down view into a parent <code>ViewGroup</code>. Does not work with <code>android:layout_width="match_parent"</code> because the width of the parent strangely seems to be unlimited.</p></li>
  <li><p>Giving the drop down view a fixed width. This is not suitable with the different widths the <code>Spinner</code> can have.</p></li>
  <li><p>And of course, no solution is to manually insert <code>\n</code>s anywhere into the text.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <hr>
  
  <h3>Reproduce with the following code:</h3>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I also uploaded this as a sample project on <a href="https://github.com/robbers/SpinnerBug" rel="noreferrer">GitHub</a>: <a href="https://github.com/robbers/SpinnerBug/archive/master.zip" rel="noreferrer">Download</a></p>
  
  <p>/res/values/arrays.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;string-array name="items"&gt;
      &lt;item&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt.&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item&gt;At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est.&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/string-array&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>/res/layout/spinner_item.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:id="@android:id/text1"
      style="?android:attr/spinnerDropDownItemStyle"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:ellipsize="none"
      android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
      android:singleLine="false" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Set <code>Adapter</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>spinner.setAdapter(ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
              R.array.items,
              R.layout.spinner_item));
  </code></pre>