Highlight mysterious behaviour in ListView - android

I have set a custom list selector for a Simple ListView but when I select an item, the whole ListView turns blue. I don't understand where the problem is.
This is my ListView:
<ListView android:id="#+id/TopListView" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:listSelector="#drawable/regular_selector"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</ListView>
and it's the regular_selector.xml
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_enabled="false" android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="#color/transparent" />
<item android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#color/blue" />
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="#color/blue" />
</selector>

I was having the same issue of the whole list view highlighting, when using a color as the background. Curiously this only happened below api 11.
Solution was to use a solid shape drawable to wrap the colour:
list_selector_shaped_background_press.xml
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<solid android:color="#color/list_selector_pressed"/>
</shape>
List_selector_background.xml
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item android:state_window_focused="false"
android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
<!-- Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state. -->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false"
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
<!-- this has to be in a shaped drawable otherwise the whole list is highlighted selects -->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_shaped_background_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_shaped_background_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_focus" />
</selector>

I guess it is the usual problem. You have to set this in your listview:
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
The goal is to disable an optimization that the framework does for improving drawing performance during scrolling operations.

When I set the regular_selector.xml as listview item background it work!

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ListView multi select - transparent color by default does not work correctly?

I have multi select on my list view. Selector looks like.
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/wt_list_click" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="#color/wt_list_click" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="#color/wt_list_click" />
<item android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
</selector>
But it does not work correctly.
Some strange behavior. At the end of the selection is always one cell.
If I change color from transparent to any other, everything works correctly.
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#color/wt_list_click" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="#color/wt_list_click" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="#color/wt_list_click" />
<item android:drawable="#color/red" />
</selector>
What is the problem, why it is so. Can someone explain to me.
In the picture, I was initially selected 5 cells, then unselected one cell. But 5 cells remained selected.
I solved!!! I founded on stackowerflow.
<ListView android:listSelector="#android:color/transparent" android:cacheColorHint="#android:color/transparent" />
and my selector on root layout from list_item
android:background="#drawable/list_item_click_selector"
https://stackoverflow.com/a/12242564/1590594

Android strange list selector behaviour

I have a list where the list items have 2 clickable icon inside. The problem is that on Android 2.3 to Android 4.0.3 when I press a list item not only the row gets highlighted but also the icons are highlighted, but on Android > 4.1 this is not the case, here it works like it should, only the row gets highlighted.
The selector of my list:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_activated="false" android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/dna_list_selector_background_transition_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/dna_list_selector_background_transition_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_focused_holo" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_longpressed_holo" />
And this is the selector of the icons:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_activated="false" android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/dna_list_selector_background_transition_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/dna_list_selector_background_transition_holo_light" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_focused_holo" />
I already searched a lot and tried to find out the problem but I am not getting it. Was the beheviour changed on Android 4.1?
The problem was that till exclusive android 4.1 the pressed state is also given to the children of the root list view and seeing that I defined following:
<item android:state_focused="false"
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/dna_list_selector_background_transition_holo_light" />
the icons in the list item is till android 4.1 pressed but not focused. I don't know if this is a bug or designed so, but it doesn't make sanse for me that the children also get the pressed state.
Starting with Android 4.1 the icons in the list item doesn't get the pressed state anymore.
Solution was to change the above selector to:
<item android:state_focused="false"
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />

Android ListView displays ListSelector only after scrolling

I added a simple ListSelector to the ListView.
The Problem is, that the ListSelector is only displayed, after the ListView is scrolled a little.
How can I make the ListSelector to apear immediately on select?
ListView
<ListView
android:id="#+id/contentListView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_above="#id/buttonEntwerten"
android:scrollingCache="false"
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
android:listSelector="#drawable/list_selector"
/>
#drawable/list_selector
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector__gradient_bg_hover" />
</selector>
you can check out how android has configured it, and change it accordingly (file name is "list_selector_background.xml") :
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:drawable="#color/transparent" />
<!-- Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state. -->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_transition" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_transition" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_focus" />
</selector>
in short, you just have to handle the state_pressed state . the rest are good states to handle too.
the problem in your code is that it has no states.

List item long press transition

This is what I use for list item selector:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
<item android:drawable="#color/red" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<!-- pressed -->
<item android:drawable="#color/green" android:state_pressed="false"/>
<!-- normal -->
</selector>
I have enabled a context menu for the ListView items so a users can long click on an item. What I want is that when a user long clicks an item, the colour should change from green to red. How can I achieve that?
You can use list_selector_background as it, As suggested here
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:drawable="#android:color/transparent" />
<!--
Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so
the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state.
-->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false"
android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_transition" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_transition" />
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:drawable="#+drawable/list_selector_background_focus" />
</selector>
And use a transition for long press, As suggested here:-
<transition xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_pressed" />
<item android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_background_longpress" />
</transition>
May be it will help you..

Android: Entire ListView changes color on focus, not just ListView child item

I am trying to apply a selector to a ListView to make it easy for those without touch screens to navigate my app. The thing is, by applying the selector to the ListView, it only seems to apply the background colors to the entire list, not the items inside of it.
Any ideas? Here's some code:
<ListView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:listSelector="#drawable/listselector"
/>
<TextView android:id="#android:id/empty"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="There are no Clients yet."
/>
listselector.xml in drawable folder:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
android:id="#+id/myselector"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- Non focused states -->
<item
android:state_focused="false"
android:state_selected="false"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#color/darkblue" />
<item
android:state_focused="false"
android:state_selected="true"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#color/green" />
<!-- Focused states -->
<item
android:state_focused="true"
android:state_selected="false"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#color/green" />
<item
android:state_focused="true"
android:state_selected="true"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#color/green" />
<!-- Pressed -->
<item
android:state_pressed="true"
android:drawable="#color/green" />
</selector>
The reason you're seeing the focused colour being applied to the whole list is because you have directly referenced a colour value for the focused and pressed states. There is a known bug in Android v2.3 and below where the colour drawable doesn't honour its bounds in these circumstances.
To fix this issue you can create a shape drawable using the desired colours and reference that instead.
e.g define the shape in 'drawables/list_selector_focused.xml' as:
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="#color/green" />
</shape>
And then reference that in the selector:
<item android:state_focused="true"
android:state_selected="true"
android:state_pressed="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/list_selector_focused" />

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