Android listview produces black highlighting over text when scrolling. How to stop this?

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Background ListView becomes black when scrolling

I have a listview within which each item contains black text on a white background. When testing on a Nexus One, when scrolling down to read through the text, a black highlight appears over the text and makes it unreadable.

I am trying to figure out what is this setting so I can turn it off. I do not want anything to get highlighted when scrolling down through the list. How can I accomplish this?

Thanks.

possible duplicate of [Background ListView becomes black when scrolling](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2833057/background-listview-becomes-black-when-scrolling) — David Snabel-Caunt, Sep 28 '11 at 12:26

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '10 at 05:00

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You probably want to set the cacheColorHint to the same color as your background.

So, when you're defining your layout, just add android:cacheColorHint='#fff' to your ListView:

<ListView android:id="@+id/list"
    android:cacheColorHint="#fff"
    android:background="#fff"
    ...etc />

answered May 08 '10 at 05:00

synic

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@synic; what if the listview background is a gradient? – syloc Sep 24 '12 at 23:07
android:cacheColorHint="#000000" works for other devices but not for 4.1 and above but android:cacheColorHint="#fff" works for all – Atul Bhardwaj Jan 25 '13 at 10:27
@syloc did you try Paresh's suggestion below of using "@android:color/transparent"? – Kirk Aug 30 '13 at 09:30

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '11 at 05:00

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This may be a trick:

android:cacheColorHint="@android:color/transparent"

answered Oct 01 '11 at 05:00

Paresh Mayani

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 08 '10 at 13:35

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Another solution would be to set the backgroundcolor of your list to transparent.

answered May 08 '10 at 13:35

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 28 '11 at 03:32

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I had the same issue and setting the android:cacheColorHint to transparent seems to do the trick

answered Sep 28 '11 at 03:32

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Android listview produces black highlighting over text when scrolling. How to stop this?

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