Android ListView does not Highlight when a OnClickListener is set

Question

I have a ListView populated with custom XML ListItems, this is the XML:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
                android:padding="6dip">
...
</RelativeLayout>

The listView shows correctly on screen and if i click or hold on an item it becomes blue (I'm using Holo Light Theme)

the problem comes when i try to assign an OnClickListener to the view, inside getView in my Activity that extends BaseAdapter:

@Override
public View getView(int position, @Nullable View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    ...
    convertView = InflateUtils.inflate(mContext, R.layout.list_item);
    ...
    convertView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            Toast.makeText(mContext, "Test", 2000).show();
        }
    });
...
}

after doing that, the list item highlight color is no more shown, when i click or hold on a list item it's background stays white, anyway the onClickListener is perfectly working.

Do you have any suggestion to get the highlight color while keeping the default styles of HoloLight?

Answer 1

You may want to use OnItemClickListener on the ListView itself, instead of separate click listeners for item views.

Also, highlight problem has already been described here: Android listview no longer highlights selection onclick