How to highlight selected item in ListView?

Question

I know that android doesn\'t highlight anything in TouchMode. But I am doing something similar to the gmail application in which you select stuff from the left side and show

Answer 1

The reason you are highlighting multiple items is probably because you are either: reusing the whole view, or setting the background of both of these views to the same Drawable instance. If you have the same drawable on the screen twice, all events that happen to the first will happen to all the others, because that logic is implemented in the instance of the Drawable itself.

To solve this, either: do not re-use Views for multiple rows, or do not re-use Drawables for multiple rows (create a new one each time)

I know this sounds resource intensive and it is, but unless you have a better solution figured out this is the easiest fix.