Question

hi am using following xml as my customlistview background

when am click an item it will highlight but it will not persist , it create only a clickable effect ,i want to be highlight a particular item in listview when click

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<!--ON FOCUS -->

<item
 android:state_focused="true"
 android:state_pressed="false"
 android:drawable="@@drawable/appcategoryselectedimg" />

<!--ON CLICK-->

<item
 android:state_focused="true"
 android:state_pressed="true"
 android:drawable="@@drawable/appcategoryselectedimg" />

<!--long touch and simple touch and release-->
<item
 android:state_focused="false"
 android:state_pressed="true"
 android:drawable="@@drawable/appcategoryselectedimg" />

<!--Default -->
<item  
 android:drawable="@color/transperent" /> 
</selector>

Answer 1

Because you do a simple click. What you need is to define drawable for state_selected and setSelected(true) when the user clicks on an item.