Android gridview keep item selected

Question

I have a GridView with multiple items, but the items must be kept selected once the the onClickListener is called.How can i achive this?

I\'v already tried v.s

Answer 1

The concept that you want to achieve is possible, but not like the way you are working now.

The best and easiest solution would be to keep track of the states of the clicked items and give them the correct layout inside the adapter. I have set up a little example:

Activity

public class StackOverFlowActivity extends Activity {
    GridView gridView;
    MyCustomAdapter myAdapter;
    ArrayList myObjects;

    static final String[] numbers = new String[] { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E",
            "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R",
            "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z" };

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        myObjects = new ArrayList();
        for (String s : numbers) {
            myObjects.add(new GridObject(s, 0));
        }

        gridView = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridView1);

        myAdapter = new MyCustomAdapter(this);

        gridView.setAdapter(myAdapter);
        gridView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView arg0, View v, int position, long arg3) {
                myObjects.get(position).setState(1);
                myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
            }
        });
    }

    static class ViewHolder {
        TextView text;
    }

    private class MyCustomAdapter extends BaseAdapter  {

        private LayoutInflater mInflater;

        public MyCustomAdapter(Context context) {
            mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            GridObject object = myObjects.get(position);
            ViewHolder holder;

            if (convertView == null) {
                convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item_icon_text, null);
                holder = new ViewHolder();
                holder.text = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.text);
                convertView.setTag(holder);
            } else {
                holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
            }

            holder.text.setText(object.getName());

            if (object.getState() == 1) {
                holder.text.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);
            } else {
                holder.text.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
            }
            return convertView;
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return myObjects.size();
        }

        @Override
        public Object getItem(int position) {
            return position;
        }

        @Override
        public long getItemId(int position) {
            return position;
        }
    }
}

GridObject

public class GridObject {

    private String name;
    private int state;

    public GridObject(String name, int state) {
        super();
        this.name = name;
        this.state = state;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public int getState() {
        return state;
    }

    public void setState(int state) {
        this.state = state;
    }   
}

Main.xml

list_item_icon_text