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ListView. Hot to highlight whole listview item when touching on it

There is ListView with items which contains TextView.
When you are touching listview item and hold the finger on it, listview item is highlighted a little.
But if textview contains just a few letters - not all row is highlighted.
Is any simple solution (some xml property, etc) to highlight whole row?

Hi Set This Code In Your Xml Of ListView
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<ListView android:id="#+id/list1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

you try to make listview width android:layout_width="fill_parent" .And also if u are using custom adapter for (images and text) -make layout width size-fill parent or match parent

Set android:layout_width attribute of parent Layout tag to fill_Parent for in xml for Listview.

ListView item on form only showing one item

I have a form with a number of EditView fields in it. The data for these fields are loaded from a database (in the onCreate() method). The last object on the screen should be a ListView that should show all related data records to the record being show. All the data is correctly loading, and the adapter for this seems to work ok. It loads the correct data, it formats the data correctly into the two-line layout specified by the .xml used by the adapter.
The problem is that the ListView on the screen is "shrunk" to show only one item, and adds a scrollbar if there's more items. I expected the ListView to expand in size to show all records, and the screen itself being scrollable (everything is wrapped inside a ScrollView).
So, the XML looks like this:
<ScrollView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/ScrollView1">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout1">
<EditView
android:id="#+id/EditView1>
</EditView>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/ListView1
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/EditView1>
android:divider="#b5b5b5"
android:dividerHeight="1dp" />
I then use a custom BaseAdapter to fill data into the ListView
listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView1);
dbRecords = db.getAllRecordsByRecordId(recordId);
CBA_Records adapter = new CBA_Records(this, dbRecords);
listView.setAdapter(adapter);
This is all the same stuff that I've done before, except this is all wrapped inside the scrollview. The reason for this is that there might be more fields than will fit on a smaller screen (or horizontal screen), so the screen must be scrollable. And, the listview must also be there ...
Any suggestions?

A little more onto what invertigo said. ListView inside a ScrollView is not recommended.
Make your ListView the root, and set it's width and height to "match_parent". Put the other stuff that's above the ListView (the header) in a separate xml. Then inflate the new xml file for the header use the addHeaderView() method to add it as a header to the ListView (it looks like you want everything to scroll).

ListView is vertically scrolling automatically, so you now have two vertical scroll areas, which do you expect to consume the scroll event? Either set your ListView to a static height (not recommended), or design your layout so only the area you want to scroll (ie the ListView) has scrolling capabilities and remove the ScrollView. Also set your base layout, in this case the RelativeLayout, to height=match-parent, and ListView height=0dp weight=1 to prevent the ListView from being "shrunk".
Alternatively, take a look at this solution if you dont want the ListView scrolling independantly: android listview display all available items without scroll with static header

how to make the change the background when ListView is Scroll up

i am trying to implement ListView. Problem is that when i am showing items of list less that the scree size the remaining is showing black. I want to set any image so that when items are less than screen size then background should be a picture

put your <ListView /> inside <LinearLayout/> ,
add background to Linear layout, with LL Height as match_parent and hieght of Listview as wrap_content

I have not done this myself, but this is what I think should work.
Place the image in /res/drawable
Then add these lines to activity in manifest or to parent layout of ListView
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:background="#drawable/image_name"
Let me know how that goes.

Change Gridview column width dynamically

I am trying to change the size of the items within my GridView. Currently the items are arranged by style (GridView_words_small) in an xml:
numColumns: auto_fit
stetchMode: 'spacingWidth'
ColumnWidth: width of the items being added (resource).
Now, through a settings change, the buttonsize can be changed. However, when I setColumnWidth() and invalidate(), no items are displayed (leaving the area blank.)
Does anyone know how to properly change gridview column widths dynamically?

backgrounds in listview

i have a listview with a bunch of items in it, each item has its own background, the problem is that if i only have one item in a list, the rest of the "empty" slots of the list is black. I tried applying a background around the listview and also on the view that sorrounds it (relativeView) and i get a strange margin around the whole list like the picture at the bottom. The question i have is, how can i remove the actual "borders" around the list so it still fills upp its parent ? .

Remove any padding you may have used in your XML layout file.

Try putting in the following code in the listview's layout:
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"

Change your listview height like this android:layout_height="fill_parent"

use android:fadingEdge="none" in listview in layout