Android listview item background change

Question

i have a android listview. i want to change listview item background when i click one listview item.

and then previous selected item must go back to default backgrou

Answer 1

You should use the built in methods of selecting items in a listview. Manually changing the background is prone to error as you have found.

Add this attribute to the root view in your listview item xml

android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"

then call setItemChecked(x, true) on your ListView where x is the position of the item you want to be selected.

Ensure your listview has a ChoiceMode set that allows selection (such as "SingleChoice")