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

What worked for me

1. override the global ListView Style in your theme

   @style/MyListView

2. define your style

3. define the selector listview_background_selector.xml

4. set the background of your listview-item-layout

   android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"