ListView selected item drawable

Question

I have a problem in my ListView. I want to change the background of selected item when I select it to a custom drawable that I have, but it doesn\'t work.

I want t

Answer 1

dynamicListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
       //arg1 will give you that view   
       arg1.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE); 
    }
});

Answer 2

In touch mode there is no selected or focused state.

However, you can have a checked state (even without a checkbox) and use that to change properties upon "selection". In your java code where you set up to display your list add this line after you define the listview:

getListView().setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE);

Then in your state list XML change this:

android:state_selected="true"

to this:

android:state_activated="true"

So now you should have:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> 
    <item android:state_activated="true"  
        android:drawable="@drawable/selected_item"/> 
    <item android:drawable="@android:color/transparent" /> 
</selector> 

And finally, set the background for your row view to point to your selector file:

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:id="@+id/txt_category_row"  
    android:gravity="center" 
    android:layout_width="match_parent"  
    android:textColor="@color/BLACK" 
    android:layout_height="55dp"  
    android:padding="10dp" 
    android:text="@string/hello"  
    android:layout_marginTop="5dp" 
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 
    android:background="@drawable/item_selector" /> 

You didn't give a name for your state list XML so I just used "item_selector". You should replace that with whatever the name of that file actually is.

Answer 3

You should use CheckableFrameLayout as list item view. You can find it here - CheckableFrameLayout

You can see there, that when you click the list item, it changes background drawable to anything you want.