Android: Disable highlighting in GridView

Question

How can I turn off the orange highlight when clicking an item in a GridView?

I haven't been able to find a solution in the documentation or through testing.

Divider

Related: "Disable Android GridView highlighting completely (disable selection)" if you want to disable not just highlighting but selection and use the GridView just for layout, or handle selection manually via onTouch/Click/etc listeners. – Nordic

Answer 1

Use android:listSelector="#00000000" in your GridView element in your XML layout file.

Aerosphere

On listviews android:listSelector="@null" does the trick but on gridview that wont work. But setting it transparent does work =/ – Mestizo

Note that elements of the selected view may still change in response to selection (e.g., TextViews changing to their "selected" color state). See this answer for how to disable selection entirely. – Nordic

You can use android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent" if you are afraid of numbers – Sacrilege

Hi @Aerosphere , can you pls help.. I have a grid view with image as a single item in grid When I m clicking in space left around image ,I get touch feedback from gridview but no feedback on clicking on the image.. what can I do? thanks. – Viscera

Answer 2

Another option is to reference the transparent color via @android:color/transparent

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:id="@+id/grid"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent"
/>

Glary

Answer 3

I did the same thing in code using

GridView.setSelector(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

Almaalmaata

Answer 4

Add this property to gridview

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

Willwilla

Answer 5

<GridView
            android:id="@+id/gridView1"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
            android:listSelector="#00000000"
            android:numColumns="3"
            android:scrollbars="none"
            android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
            android:verticalSpacing="10dp" />

Done! this is a solution. thank you :)

Beset

to hide highlighted from gridview. – Beset

Answer 6

Try It...

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

Veilleux

Answer 7

Just set below property in your XML file.

android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

Surmise

Answer 8

Add android:listSelector="#00000000" or android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent" in your GridView XML element like bellow.

<GridView
        android:id="@+id/gridView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:columnWidth="150dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:listSelector="#00000000"
        android:numColumns="auto_fit"
        android:stretchMode="columnWidth" />

Unintelligent