how to change color of android list item on click or selection? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Step1: Embbed the android:listSelector attribute in your ListView as Shown Below.

Step2: Create a new xml named listselector and put the following code in that

Step3: Create a file named colors.xml add the following the code in that file

    #ff5500
    #FF00FF

Add this line in your java code

ListView lv= (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list);
lv.setSelector( R.drawable.listselector);