I will answer my own question here as I finally got it sorted... Hope it can be useful for anybody else.
Using the setOnItemSelectedListener and onItemSelected is not needed for this purpose. The solution was in the xml: In the row TextView: <TextView> android:id="@+id/label" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#000000" android:padding="4px" android:background="@drawable/clickablelistitem" /> Then, in clickablelistitem.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";> <item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="@drawable/ background_white"/> <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/ background_selected"/> <item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/ background_white"/> <item android:drawable="@drawable/background_white"/> </selector> where background_white.png is a 10x10 pixel white background, and background_selected.png is a 10x10 pixel with selected color background. I guess it could be achieved using a color definition as well but at least it works now. Also, remember to set android:listSelector="@android:color/ transparent" on the actual ListView. However - I am still not able to catch onItemSelected - but live happily without it so far. Chris On 3 Sep, 08:01, chrisoz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks danny, > > what I am trying to achieve here is to change the background color of > the selected list item (list items have a white background colour). > Like you I am able to call onItemClick (or rather, onListItemClick), > but not onItemSelected. Now, it is not possible to see which list item > is selected. > > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
