ListView Item selection Android

Question

I have a listview in that i want when my activity starts then the first item will have background and the other items don't have any background.After that if the user selects any other item then the background of that particular item will now be blue and the rest don't have any background.Please help me on this.

My layout_effect.xml

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

    <item android:state_focused="true">
    <shape>
        <solid android:color="#ffffff" />
    </shape>
</item>
    <item>
    <shape>
        <solid android:color="#00a7eb" />
    </shape>
</item>
</selector>

My GetView Code where i am setting the default Background

public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { 
        if(position == 0){

            vi.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selection_effect);
            vi.setSelected(true);

            }
        }

Any my onclickListner of the listview

onewayListView .setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {


        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
                long arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub


        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Clicked", 1000).show();
        }
    });

My Listview xml

<ListView
            android:id="@+id/lvDepartures"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
            android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:listSelector="@drawable/selection_effect"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>

Please help me how could i solve this problem i am stucked in it from last 1day.

Answer 1

For doing this what you can do is create a selector and apply it to parent view of your row.xml

• Define color in strings.xml

  <color name="blue">#009FE3</color>

• Create a selector

  <item android:drawable="@color/blue" android:state_activated="true" />
  <item android:drawable="@color/blue" android:state_focused="true" />
  

Now apply it as android:background="@drawable/row_selector" for parent view of your row.

• Set ListView as CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE in java code

  listview.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE);

• And finally setAdapter to your ListView.

  listview.setAdapter(adapter);

• For selection of default item in ListView use,

  listview.setItemChecked(position, true);

I had created a demo example for the same you can download it from my github