Changing background color of ListView items on And

Question

How can I change background color of ListView items on a per-item basis. When I use android:backgroundColor in the ListView item layout I can achieve this, however the list selector is no longer visible. I can make the selector visible again by setting drawSelectorOnTop to true but then the selector overlays the whole item.

Any ideas how to change those background colors and keep the selector?

PS I would rather not change the selector itself.

EDIT: Authors of GMail application have managed to achieve exactly this so it's definitely possible.

Answer 1

Take a look at List14 example. In getView() you can call convertView.setBackgroundDrawable() for each entry. You could have a class member counter to decide which background to call it with to get alternating backgrounds, for example.

Answer 2

Simple code to change all in layout of item (custom listview extends baseadapter):

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
                long arg3) {

            RelativeLayout layout=(RelativeLayout) arg1.findViewById(R.id.rel_cell_left);
            layout.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);



        }
    });

Answer 3

In the list view you can add android:listselector=color name that you want.

this work fine in my app.

Answer 4

By changing a code of Francisco Cabezas, I got the following:

private int selectedRow = -1;

...

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
    parent.getChildAt(position).setBackgroundResource(R.color.orange);
    if (selectedRow != -1 && selectedRow != position) {
        parent.getChildAt(selectedRow).setBackgroundResource(R.color.black);
    }
    selectedRow = position;

Answer 5

the easiest way is this. Inside your ListArrayAdapter just do this

if(your condition here) rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#20FFFFFF"));

don't over complicate

Answer 6

Following way very slowly in the running

mAgendaListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
//view.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);

for(int i=0; i<parent.getChildCount(); i++)
{
     if(i == position)
     {
               parent.getChildAt(i).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
     }
     else
     {
               parent.getChildAt(i).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
     }

 }

Replaced by the following

int pos = 0;
int save = -1;
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,
            long id) {
            //Always set the item clicked blue background
            view.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);

            if (pos == 0) {
                if (save != -1) {
                    parent.getChildAt(save).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
                }
                save = position;
                pos++;
                Log.d("Pos = 0", "Running");

            } else {
                parent.getChildAt(save).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
                save = position;
                pos = 0;
                Log.d("Pos # 0", "Running");
            }