How to highlight ListView-Items

Question

i got the following problem.

i have a ListView with custom rows consisting of an imageview and a textview. the textview\'s xml code is

Answer 1

This is how it should look using selector:

Create a file within drawable called selector_listview_item.xml, which looks like (change the colors to your own):

Now in your layout which describes the list row (e.g. layout_list_row.xml), On the root layout add the android:background="@drawable/selector_listview_item", So the layout would look something like:

    android:orientation="vertical">

    

(Note: you might want to add android:focusable="false" on you items within that listview row, to make the row clickable, as mentioned here)

Done.