View gets its drawable state (pressed, etc…) from its parent

Question

I have a ListView where each list item is a custom layout based on a RelativeLayout, it is clickable and it has a custom selector. En plus, it has a sub-RelativeLayout which

Answer 1

Can you please show your code of ListView's item and selectors? To my mind you've made some mistakes, when implemented it. Here is my example of item and its selectors. It works fine for me:

Video, how my implementation works: >click to open<

list_view_item.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:padding="40dp"
    android:background="@drawable/relative_selector">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="300dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:background="@drawable/child_selector_1"
        android:clickable="true">

        <RelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="100dp"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:background="@drawable/child_selector_2"
            android:clickable="true"/>
    </RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

relative_selector.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true">
        <inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
            <shape android:shape="rectangle">
                <solid android:color="@android:color/holo_blue_bright" />
            </shape>
        </inset>
    </item>
</selector>

child_selector_1.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!-- pressed state -->
    <item android:state_pressed="true">
        <inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
            <shape android:shape="rectangle">
                <solid android:color="@android:color/holo_orange_dark" />
            </shape>
        </inset>
    </item>

    <!-- focused state -->
    <item android:state_focused="true">
        <inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
            <shape android:shape="rectangle">
                <solid android:color="@android:color/holo_orange_dark" />
            </shape>
        </inset>
    </item>

    <!-- normal state -->
    <item>
        <inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
            <shape android:shape="rectangle">
                <solid android:color="@android:color/holo_red_dark" />
            </shape>
        </inset>
    </item>
</selector>