Picker with down icon on the right and over the text - Android

Hi, I successfully implemented the picker with down icon on the right from this wonderful post in Xamarin Forms project, but when the text in picker is long (than the picker control's width), the text overlaps the down image, which looks very bad. Basically the down icon drawable image is set as background drawable,

...
if (Control != null && this.Element != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(element.Image))
              Control.Background = AddPickerStyles(element.Image);
...

so I tried using Control.Foreground in the custom renderer, but I got this error - "Java.Lang.LinkageError: no non-static method". Please assist.
It would be very helpful, if you point out any solution for text ellipsis also (ie.., dots for long texts in picker like iOS)
Thanks in advance

NOTE: This is obviously not a problem in iOS.