!I\'m just going to be honest and say this was stupid. It pissed me off because why would you remove a spinner to essentially make a text view? Google got too many people to be this annoying to devs. Anyway let me show you the xml and the kotlin code\... XML --- fragment\_main.xml <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout android:layout_width="250dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="16dp" android:hint="@string/select_one" style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.Dense.ExposedDropdownMenu" app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent" app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent" app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"> <AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/dropdown_value" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:inputType="none"/> </com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout> list\_item\_dropdown.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:padding="10dp" android:maxLines="1" android:textAppearance="?attr/textAppearanceSubtitle1"/> Kotlin File ----------- MainFragment.kt private var list = listOf("word 1", "word 2", "word 3") val adapter = ArrayAdapter(requireContext(), R.layout.list_item_dropdown, actionList) binding.dropdownValue.setAdapter(adapter) binding.dropdownValue.setOnItemClickListener { parent, view, position, id -> Log.d("FRAG", list[position]) } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I do believe this is a cleaner dropdown menu but figuring this stuff out took like 2 days and I think that\'s a lot for something that should be simple. Regardless I hope this helps someone out. Save yourself time and prosper.