Android - Disable ListView Selection Highlight but Keep OnClick enabled [duplicate]

Question

I want to disable the highlight that appears when the user selects a row (listSelector) from code. I don't want to disable the onClick and enabled settings (I still want to listen to clicks, just want to remove the highlight).

Answer 1

Specify android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent" in your ListView XML.

Answer 2

Just create a drawable that has a transparent color in it, something like this:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:drawable="@android:color/transparent"/>

<!-- Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state. -->
<item android:state_focused="true"  android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true"  android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true"  android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/transparent" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/transparent" />
<item android:state_focused="true"  android:drawable="@drawable/list_focused_holo" />

</selector>

And then set by code or by XML:

listView.setSelector(R.drawable.my_transparent_selector);

The javadoc for this method says:

Set a Drawable that should be used to highlight the currently selected item.

and the XML attribute is:

android:listSelector

You can play with all the states, remember that you also have the focus state.

Answer 3

I have done this way:

By adding two properties of ListView.

android:cacheColorHint="@android:color/transparent"
android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent"

Your ListView should looks like below:

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/listView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:cacheColorHint="@android:color/transparent"
    android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent">

</ListView>

Done