Programmatically hightlight ListView items

Question

I want highlight the first element of my listview programmatically, when the Activity is created.

The highlight options of my ListView are:

<item name="android:choiceMode">singleChoice</item>
<item name="android:listSelector">@color/green</item>

I tried a lot of methods to initialiaze the highlight, all not working.

- list.setSelection();
- list.setItemChecked();
- list.performItemClick();
- maybe other...

Why is so painfull highlighting a ListView item from code? What I should know?

You could additionally try `View child = listView.getChildAt(0)` and `child.requestFocus()` maybe — OneCricketeer, Mar 18 '16 at 16:38
Possible duplicate of [Programmatically select item ListView in Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10788688/programmatically-select-item-listview-in-android) — OneCricketeer, Mar 18 '16 at 16:40
Yes, but what I'm searching is a clean way to highlight. The linked solution (in my opinion) isn't so clean. No? — optimusfrenk, Mar 19 '16 at 09:01
Do you want a clean solution or a working solution? `Mylistview.setItemChecked(position, true);` isn't clean? — OneCricketeer, Mar 19 '16 at 10:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 16:31

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use custom adapter and in onBindViewHolder user as

if(position == 0){
//set highlight code here
}

answered Mar 18 '16 at 16:31

Nisar Ahmad

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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Please, check out this

And in getView method add

if(position == 0)
   // set background color for View

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Mar 18 '16 at 16:33

Yurii Kot

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 16:39

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Add this in your Custom adapter:

@Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
      //Initialize view holder
    switch(position) {
    case 0: {
      //Highlight view
            break;
         }
           default: {
           //Rest of List items
           }
      }

answered Mar 18 '16 at 16:39

Malwinder Singh

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`list.setSelection` is different than drawing a custom background – OneCricketeer Mar 18 '16 at 16:41

Programmatically hightlight ListView items

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