Please distinguish that my ListView does highlight when a user clicks on an Item. The problem is when the user first opens my Activity, I want to preselect an item so I use listView.setSelection(position). But doing this does not cause the view to highlight. Now I understand the documentation for setSelection says
If in touch mode, the item will not be selected...
What I am looking for is a workaround to that particular problem. Thanks.
You can change choice mode to :
Listview.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE)
and you can set selection color aswell :
Listview.setSelector(android.R.color.darker_gray);
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I have a listview and a corresponding listview adapter.
The views displayed in the Listview have I written myself and it's a framelayout with one button and one imagebutton. The imagebutton is a red cross that deletes the entry and the regular button selects the entry.
When the user presses the regular button, that item is selected and I want to show this to the user by setting the background of that item to green. The application stores which item the user selected and the next time the listview is rendered, THAT item should be selected and green.
Notice that there should be one and EXACTLY one selected item in my listview at all times.
In the getView(.. method in my adaper, it's very easy to change color of the button when the user clicks it. But the button that was green before the user clicked is impossible for me to reference.
I tried storing a reference the previously selected button, but it never repainted
I tried removing and adding the data item from the list to trigger notifyDataSetChanged but it never repainted
I tried setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE), but that led nowhere because I don't know how to catch the choice in my getView method and paint differently depending on wheter it's selected or not.
All guides I see suggest using notifyDataSetChanged. However, the underlying data is NOT changed in this case and it is not correct (or possible) solution.
So I think that my problem boils down to: HOW can I reference another view in my listview??
(And Yes, I have seen this post: Highlight selected item in ListView on Android . It describes my problem and is answered with "and then change the color of previous selected item's background back to normal" but I still can't refer to the PREVIOUS selected item.
Thanks!
Why don't you use Radio Buttons ? This is exactly the design you need. You can add a "red cross" on each line to delete the line. The selected line is unique and you can iterate on RadioButton.isChecked(); of your RadioGroup to set the background color accordingly.
I am populating an ExpandableListView and when the user clicks on the item the child items open.
Can I have an child item named as favourite, when ever the user clicks on this list it will be favourite and the color of these listview changes after clicking on the favourite button.
How to achieve this, any help would be great.
Looking forward to your reply.
thanks.
Use styles for changing the colours dynamically. Set the style of the view from the code to change the same on the click.
Place any views in hidden state and enable and disable them on time according to ur requirement. For ex showing STAR for the favourite.
I have a list view with black text items with single choice mode.
I would like the checked item to be red.
Is there any straightforward way to do this, or do I need to listen for item click callbacks, change the colors manually, etc.?
Thanks
There's nothing that will "automatically" change the background of an entire listview item based on a checkbox, so you'll pretty much have to handle the event.
When you touch some grid or listview items in an android app, he change the background color telling you that you have pressed it.
I'm having a problem in my app. When I create that a listview for instance, and I press it in my phone, he change color, but if I set the OnClick property, the item dont change it color. Whats wrong? The OnClick works as its suppose.
Thanks
Generally with ListView you want to use an OnItemClickListener.
This gives you a chance to perform an action based on the position in the list that was clicked.
If you need access to the view adapter from within onItemClick then you can use AdapterView#getAdapter() on the AdapterView that is supplied to you.
In Android, I want to present the user with a list. When an item on the list is selected some action is performed, and this list item is no longer selectable. It is also 'grayed out' or the like to indicate that it cannot be selected the next time the list is displayed. I have seen the isSelectable() override in Adapter, but I believe this causes the item to be treated as a separator, which causes visual problems. And I have not found a way to 'gray out' an item. Any ideas? Thanks...
As far as graying out an item. I'm not sure if this is the best way, but it's what I do:
view.setAlpha(75);
view.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);
I'm basically making the item transparent and then setting the background color to gray. If you're reusing your list items you should also change them back to their original state if the condition is not met, i.e.:
view.setAlpha(255);
view.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
that is, if your original state was no transparency and the background color was white.
You need the view to be disabled. If you are creating the views just call .setDisabled(boolean) on the top view. Setting the list item to be disabled doesn't work very well in my experience.
Here is the solution I am using. I set up an OnItemClickListener for my ListView. When an item in the list is clicked, I take the passed in View and call setEnabled(false) on it. This will gray out the item. However, subsequent clicks on this item will still call the onItemClick method. So, you will need to check on each click if the item is enabled/disabled and act accordingly.