Android selector & text color

Question

I want a simple TextView to behave the way simple_list_item_1 in a ListView does. Here's the XML:

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="center" android:focusable="true"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background" />

Everything works except for the text color that (expectedly) doesn't change in focused state. How do I make it change to textAppearanceLargeInverse?

Answer 1

Here's my implementation, which behaves exactly as item in list (at least on 2.3)

res/layout/list_video_footer.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/list_video_footer"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:minHeight="98px"
        android:text="@string/more"
        android:textColor="@color/bright_text_dark_focused"
        android:textSize="18dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

</FrameLayout>

res/color/bright_text_dark_focused.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:state_selected="true" android:color="#444"/>
    <item android:state_focused="true" android:color="#444"/>
    <item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="#444"/>
    <item android:color="#ccc"/>

</selector>

Answer 2

I always used the above solution without searching more after this. ;-)

However, today I came across something and thought of sharing it. :)

This feature is indeed available from API 1 and is called as ColorStateList, where we can supply a color to various states of Widgets (as we already know).

It is also very well documented, here.