Custom background color for selected item with “activatedBackgroundIndicator” Navigation Drawer

Question

This question has been asked a lot on SO, and I have referenced all the answers. I am still left with the default Holo blue background for selected items on my navigation drawe

Answer 1

I wasn't able to find any full clear answer to this question, so here it is:

Step 1. Specify the list item layout your adapter will use, in this example we're specifying:R.layout.fragment_navigation_drawer_list_item

Like so:

mDrawerListView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(
        // First parameter - Context
        getActionBar().getThemedContext(),
        // Second parameter - Layout for the row
        R.layout.fragment_navigation_drawer_list_item,
        // Third parameter - ID of the TextView to which the data is written
        android.R.id.text1,
        // Forth - the Array of data
        new String[]{
                getString(R.string.title_section1),
                getString(R.string.title_section2),
                getString(R.string.title_section3),
                getString(R.string.title_section4),
        }))`

Step 2. Create and customize fragment_navigation_drawer_list_item.xml to specify a drawable that will have a selector like so: android:background="@drawable/activated_background" Full example:

Step 3. Create and customize the selector in your activated_background.xml file just like in the question, it will look like this: