Android: Make parent selector trigger when selecting child

Question

I have a LinearLayout with some other LinearLayouts inside. The children layouts have a background selector set. I need to change the color of the parent layout as well when a children is pressed. I have set a background selector as well for the parent, but it only triggers when clicking outside of any children.

How can I avoid this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try adding this to the layout attributes for the parent LinearLayout:

android:addStatesFromChildren="true"

Alternatively, in code call:

parentLayout.setAddStatesFromChildren(true);

In either case, be sure that the child layouts do not have the android:duplicateParentState attribute set (and do not call setDuplicateParentState(true)), or you will get an exception at run time when the system detects the circular dependency.