How do I create an Android Spinner as a popup?

You can use an alert dialog

    AlertDialog.Builder b = new Builder(this);
    b.setTitle("Example");
    String[] types = {"By Zip", "By Category"};
    b.setItems(types, new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

            dialog.dismiss();
            switch(which){
            case 0:
                onZipRequested();
                break;
            case 1:
                onCategoryRequested();
                break;
            }
        }

    });

    b.show();

This will close the dialog when one of them is pressed like you are wanting. Hope this helps!

In xml there is option

android:spinnerMode="dialog"

use this for Dialog mode

Try this:

Spinner popupSpinner = new Spinner(context, Spinner.MODE_DIALOG);

See this link for more details.

MODE_DIALOG and MODE_DROPDOWN are defined in API 11 (Honeycomb). MODE_DIALOG describes the usual behaviour in previous platform versions.

Adding a small attribute as android:spinnerMode="dialog" would show the spinner contents in a pop-up.