Hi!

Anybody has a similar experience or ...? How do you otherwise select a 
listview item in a "dual pane" layout? 

Regards,
 Miha.

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:14:29 AM UTC+2, Miha wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to understand the mechanics behind "highlighting" the 
> "selected" list item. I have a list fragment, which might display with a 
> secondary "details fragment" if the screen width allows it. In that case, I 
> want to highlight the selected list item. In order to do so, the listview 
> has defined choice mode of single, and also a defined selector:
>
> listView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE);
> listView.setSelector(R.drawable.listitem_selector);
>
> The list uses a custom view for layout, and when the view does not set the 
> "android:background", the listitem_selector works -- it shows on the 
> screen. When the row layout has a background set to a drawable (in my case, 
> it is selector, consisting of colors), the listitem_selector does not work. 
> I tried the methods explained in the stackoverflow 
> post<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2562051/listview-item-background-via-custom-selector>,
>  
> but the approach does not work, at least not in my case.
>
> I'm obviously missing a part of the puzzle and I would appreciate any 
> insight into this matter.
>
> One possible solution I see is modifying the backing adapter 
> implementation and providing a different view based on the state of the 
> item, but that seems like wrong approach -- I would have to update the 
> adapter with information on the selected item and call 
> notifyDataSetChanged, which would (I suppose) result in an unnecessary 
> re-drawing of the whole list.
>
> Regards,
>  Miha.
>
>

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