How do you get the selection color in Android?

Question

I need to get the selection color used by Android to draw ListView and EditText selection. I know these controls user selectors to draw their states, but I've written a few widgets that I want to match the selection color of the platform they are running on and the drawables that are defined can't do that because they are using 9 patch images instead of colors.

I've looked all through the Android source and haven't found a color selector or color constant I can use to get the color I'm looking for.

Answer 1

You could try this :

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

Answer 2

you can get all the resource from here

android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-<Desire API Level>\data\res\drawable-hdpi.

or you can use directly like this

android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background"

or like this also

Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(android.R.drawable.list_selector_background);