ListView selected item drawable

android, listview

Solution

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.

Problem

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 to have this effect as in the image to be the selecteditem ``` <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="@drawable/selected_item"/> <item android:drawable="@android:color/transparent" /> </selector> ``` And this is the text of list_row ``` <!-- this layout is used to view row of category list and resturant list --> <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" /> ``` And this the ListView `code.xml`: ``` <ListView android:id="@+id/list_category" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="184dp" android:dividerHeight="2px" android:background="@android:color/transparent" android:cacheColorHint="@android:color/transparent" android:layout_marginTop="5dp" android:listSelector="@drawable/list_selector" android:divider="@color/Gray" > ```

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