how to change font color in selected/focused ListView items?

Question

I am struggling with this which apparently is a very simple effect but incredibly haven\'t found any intutitive way for doing it in Android.

I have a ListView and I

Answer 1

When you are deploying the app for Android 11+ (HoneyComb+), you should use

android:state_activated="true"

for selected list state. For the earlier versions use the combination of:

android:state_checked="true"
android:state_activated="true"

Of course don't forget to include the

android:duplicateParentState="true"

so the view can get the activated/checked state from a parent list view item