Question

My first question is, how do I set the color of the listview background as white?

I tried list.setBackgroundColor(0xFFFFFF); but of course that doesn’t work.

Another issue I’ve been having with other listviews (I can easily change the bg in xml, but I dont know how in java) is that the rows turn black when you tap and scroll.

I think this is the problem: Android ListView Background not painted

Again, I have no clue as to how I implement it in my code.

Answer 1

You can set the background color of listview as follows,

  ListView listview=new ListView(this);
  listview.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

If your listview shows black when you scrolling the listview then add the some code in xml as

 android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
 android:scrollbarFadeDuration="0"

I think it may helpful to you.

Edit:

 <RelativeLayout
 xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 android:orientation="vertical"
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="fill_parent"
 android:background="@drawable/plainbg">


 <ListView 
 android:id="@+id/foodlistview"
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
 android:scrollbarFadeDuration="0"
 android:divider="@android:color/white"
 android:dividerHeight="2px"
 ></ListView>

Here the xml layout contains listview.