Question

I currently have a very plain ListView with no background image and just text for each item in the list.

Some people have voiced the problem that it isn’t intuitive to click on the list items.

So I am researching what kind of a background image to create so that it makes the list item look “very clickable”

One option is to have the background image contain those little icons on the right that look have something like a “>” and its a sign that it should be clicked on.

But I am wondering what if the text is long on the listitem and it will overlap over the “>” icon. How is that usually handled? Is there a way to make text only extend 90% of the entire listitem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The easiest and cleanest solution would be to make your TextView width match_parent and use the android:drawableRight attribute in your XML to specify the drawable that you want to be displayed on the right side of your text.