How to highlight onclick Item of ListView in Xamarin Android

Question

I'd like to see the highlight when I click the item in ListView but It doesn't work. I googled so long time to fix this but nothing helped.

I didn't have any issue when I created the list in Android native. Here is the XML of layout that worked on Android native project.

<ListView
            android:id="@+id/menuList"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_above="@+id/img_logo_arkema"
            android:layout_below="@+id/img_logo_paladin"
            android:background="#ffffffff"
            android:choiceMode="singleChoice" />

But This doesn't work when I create same ListView in Xamarin.Android project. Here is the XML of layout that doesn't work on Xamarin.Android project.

<ListView
        android:id="@+id/menuList"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:divider="@color/colorTopDivider"
        android:dividerHeight="@dimen/right_menu_divider_size"
        android:choiceMode="singleChoice" />

I am developing the Xamarin.Android in Visual Studio 2015.

thanks for your help!

Are you getting any error messages? And could you please post the codes of your adapter? — Elvis Xia - MSFT, Apr 28 '17 at 05:41
Thanks for your reply, Elvis. I am not getting any error messages. — Passionate.C, Apr 28 '17 at 07:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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I have tried for several hours and finally fixed it myself.

The problem was that I set the color to background of list item layout. When I removed the background attribute in list item layout, it worked!

Here is more detailed solution.

highlighting the selected item in the listview in android

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Apr 28 '17 at 07:37

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '17 at 07:47

Yeah basically your idea is correct Passionate.C. But you can also make it easier with selector, you define a selector in xml (inside the drawble folder)

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true"
    android:drawable="@android:drawable/list_selector_background" />      
</selector>

Then in your listView you call setSelector() and pass your own selector. This is a more customizable solution because you can also easily control other status of your listView item's

I agree, Maurizio. It's really more customisable solution. But I don't wanted to create new resource for basic highlight. Thanks. — Passionate.C, Apr 28 '17 at 07:49

How to highlight onclick Item of ListView in Xamarin Android

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