Change background color of an item in Android ListActivity onListItemClick

Question

I know it sounds very simple, and there are questions about this. But none of it could solve my problem. So here we go:

I want to change background color of a list item

Answer 1

this is how I did it:

create a global variable View ColoredView; then when you setOnItemClickListener for your ListView, do this:

MenuList.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                if (ColoredView != null)
                    ColoredView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); //original color

                view.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE); //selected color
                ColoredView = view;
            }
        });

it's the simplest way in my opinion.