Highlight ListView selected row

Question

I have a list of albums (several hundred). When I touch the selected album I want to offer the user a choice of playing the whole album, or moving to its track ListView. No

Answer 1

In my case, when using simple_list_item_2, the only solution was to override the getView() method of the adapter, and just change the background color manually:

listview = new SimpleAdapter(ctx, data,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_2, res,
                new String[] {"field1", "field2" },
                new int[] {android.R.id.text1, android.R.id.text2 })

            @Override
            public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
                View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

                if (this_is_the_selected_item)
                {
                    view.setBackgroundColor(0xff999999);
                }
                else
                {
                    view.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
                }
                return view;
            }
        };

Remember to call listview.invalidateViews() whenever you change the selected item.