I agree with what you said, but I'm curious about Android Spinners. They look like select drop downs. Why are they called spinners? What makes them unique to An

I agree with what you said, but I'm curious about Android Spinners. They look like select drop downs. Why are they called spinners? What makes them unique to Android? iOS of course also supports drop downs, and the UI implementation for a drop down actually looks like a spinner in iOS...