Showing the current selection in a listview

Question

As seen in the tablet version of gmail and google talk I am trying to show the current selection in a listview. I know this is not standard practice and should be avoided wh

Answer 1

If you use a custom layout for each row:

1. create a selector with android:state_activated="true"
2. apply it as the background of the custom layout.

an example of the selector drawable: