Romain Guy wrote:
> It is the correct behavior. A ListView selection is here only for
> **navigation** it is not meant as a persistent data selection tool.
> For this, you have to use ListView's choice mode. Think of ListView's
> selection as just a slightly different form of focus: it's there to
> allow phones with only a dpad/trackball to navigate through the list
> and click an element. Context-based actions are performed in Android
> using the contextual menus (or long click/long press.) No contextual
> action should be placed in the main menu (the one that appears with
> the menu key.)

OK.

> If the user selects a list row, then somehow pops up a dialog, then
> dismiss the dialog, the list row will still be selected *unless* the
> user entered touch mode. This will definitely get rid of the ListView
> selection.

FWIW, I don't think users will expect that behavior.

Thanks for the info!

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