I don't think it is deprecated. Maybe from 4.0 it depends on another attribute called
android:spinnerMode
Here is a example which shows you how the prompt works with Spinner Mode attribute.
And before that let me make it clear that,spinnerMode can be set to either dialog or dropdown.
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this is a simple implementation:
lv.setOnScrollListener(new OnScrollListener() {
private int mLastFirstVisibleItem;
@Override
public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState) {
}
@Override
public void onScroll(AbsListView view...