how to highlight the selected Item of Recycler View?

Question

I have a Recycler View with the Images loaded from the Internal Storage. I want to Highlight the selected item when clicked. I tried a lot of thing but it was not working. A

Answer 1

This solution is more of an interactive look like the tableView in IOS. It'll highlight then unhighlight the cells.

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(Cell holder, final int position) {
    if(requests != null) {
        holder.setView(requests.get(position), context);

        holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(final View v) {
                Logs.print("In OnClickListener", position + " selected");
            }
        });

        holder.itemView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                switch (event.getAction()) {
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                        Logs.print("In Touch Handler", "A press has started");
                        v.setSelected(true);
                        break;
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                        Logs.print("In Touch Handler", "A press has been completed");
                        v.setSelected(false);
                        break;
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
                        Logs.print("In Touch Handler", "gesture aborted");
                        v.setSelected(false);
                        break;
                }
                return true;
            }
        });
    }
}