Change Selection in a ListView from Orange to Green

Question

How do I do this per selected list item.

I tried adding this to android:background

Answer 1

I was also facing your problem where the color change applies to the whole list.

But now its working for me now:

My main page containing the listview (noticed I did not apply the listselector here):

Instead applied the listselector to getView, its like tell that particular row (convertView) to use the listselector.xml in drawable foldable when its state changes, e.g. pressed, focused...:

@Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            ViewHolder viewHolder;
            if(convertView == null){
                LayoutInflater li = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
                convertView = li.inflate(R.layout.control_list, null);
                viewHolder = new ViewHolder();

                viewHolder.topText = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.toptext);
                viewHolder.bottomText = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.bottomtext);
                convertView.setTag(viewHolder);

            }
            else{
                viewHolder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
            }


                    //each convertView will be assigned the listselector
            convertView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.listselector);


            viewHolder.topText.setText(testSchemes[position]);

            //viewHolder.vText.setText(testDetails[position]);
            return convertView;
        }

And finally my listselector.xml:

This is what the above code does: All entries when first loaded are lightgreen. Scrolling up and down using cursor highlights the selected entry orange. Pressing a row turns it to darkgreen.