Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item

Question

I used Android Studio to implement the Navigation Drawer and I can\'t get the blue colour that is used to show which section we\'re currently in to change.

I\'ve tri

Answer 1

Still not sure why it is that it doesn't work. But the way I found around it is to use my own simple_list_item_activated layout to be passed to the ArrayAdapter which was basically the same except for setting the text colour to white. I then replaced getActionBar().getThemedContext() with getActivity().getBaseContext() and it now has an effect.

This may not be the correct way and may have repercussions in the future, but for now I have it working the way I want it to.