Question

I have a custom ListView in which each row.xml looks like this:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:orientation="horizontal" >

<CheckBox
    android:id="@+id/star_listed"
    style="?android:attr/starStyle"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
    android:contentDescription="@string/question_img_cd"
    android:focusable="false"/>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/listTitles"
    style="@style/ListTitles" />

Everything works fine except that when I press anywhere on the ListView, the background of the CheckBox changes to black (instead of remaining white). It happened before to my TextView as well until I set its background color to white.

If I changed the ´CheckBox´ background to white, or even tranparent, it disappears.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I’m not sure but that probably happens because you use the default style attribute for the star(?android:attr/starStyle) which has a transparent background(I’m not sure) and you see the underlying black row color. Try to set the the white color for the parent LinearLayout in the row instead of setting the color for each View in the row.