Question

The context: I want to have a ListView that wouldn’t receive focus (e.g. won’t highlight row when user touches it). Yet each row widget has it’s own OnClickListener. Here’s what I specify in layout xml:

android:choiceMode='none'  android:focusableInTouchMode='false' android:focusable='false' 

The ListView still behaves exactly the same. Could someone please explain

1. The interrelation between the three
2. What’s the right way to create a ListView that doesn’t receive focus?

TIA.

Answer 1

The list receiving focus is different than the selected row not highlighting. The list gets focus whenever a user is in it. The best a ListView can do is report an int for whatever the user has selected. I’m not sure how each row widget has it’s own ClickListener. There are no row widgets that I am aware of. The onListItemClick belongs to the ListView.

I havent been able to figure it out yet, but between android:listSelector and android:background and adjusting the alpha channels I figure there would be a way to make a selection look just like a non-selected row.

android:listSelector='#8fff' makes it so just the foreground changes on selection.

It seems like android chooses the non-selected foreground on its own, which is making this hard. I hope this helps.