Android listview no longer highlights selection onclick

Question

I have a listview that was showing a yellowtint on items when I touched them. All I\'ve done differently is change the background image in that listview xml , and now it no long

Answer 1

When you added a new background to the ListView you overrode androids default background that was most likely using a selector to tint the ListItems depending on their state.

Try to use a custom selector

Create an XML file, mycustombackground.xml, and add this to it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
   <item android:state_pressed="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/item_pressed" /> 
   <item android:state_focused="true"
      android:drawable="@drawable/item_focused" /> 
   <item android:drawable="@drawable/item_normal" /> 
 </selector>

Replace the @drawables with your own in relation to the state. Then set the background of your listview to the xml file.

android:background="@drawable/mycustombackground" 

You may want to take a look into the XML to create the yellow color, or just create your own image.