Deselect selected item in ListView

Question

I use a ListView in my layout like this:

 <ListView android:id="@+id/list"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_gravity="center"
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              android:layout_weight="0.7"
              android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_centerInParent="true"
              android:divider="@color/dark_grey"
              android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"
              android:focusable="true"
              android:layout_marginBottom="55dp"
              android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
              android:listSelector="@color/light_grey"
              android:dividerHeight="1px" />

The selector works great but how can I disable the selector?

I tried:

listView.clearChoices();
listView.setSelected();
listView.setSelector();
...

and a few more things but nothing works. Any ideas how I can turn my selected item back to normal? Can't be that complicated, right?

Edit: I need a programmatical solution!

Tamper

May your are suffering from this bug #9754670 – Cheapjack

Yeah, when calling requestLayout() after clearChoices() it works. If you post an anwer I'll accept it – Tamper

Does this answer your question? How do I clear ListView selection? – Seismic

Answer 1

Call requestLayout() on the ListView after clearChoices(). It will work.

Cheapjack

for me it worked with adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() after clearChoices() – Jerrybuilt

For me worked with listviewObject.clearChoices () after adapterObject.notifyDataSetChanged () – Nightfall

adapter.notifyDataSetInvalidated() works for ExpandableListView – Breadboard

Let's warm up this topic. I'm trying to use this in the onDestroyActionMode method of the ActionMode.Callback and doesn't work. The only visible change happens with calling the listView.setAdapter(myAdapter); but it repositioning the screen to the top unexpectedly. – Lashonda

Answer 2

As @Muerte mentioned above, doing the following worked for me:

myListView.clearChoices();
myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

That seems like it would be better than redrawing the whole layout.

Perishing

For me worked with listviewObject.clearChoices () after adapterObject.notifyDataSetChanged () – Nightfall

Answer 3

For me it worked with:

listView.setAdapter(myAdapter);

Duplicator

Thank you. After trying so many different way, this finally worked for me. – Photoflood

This worked for me. All the other suggestions didn't work. I'm not sure why they didn't but perhaps its because I'm calling myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged() in the onItemClick() handler. – Yevetteyew

The drawback of this solution is that the list will be recreated positioning the screen to the top. It might be annoying sometimes. – Lashonda

Answer 4

In your XML where you declare the ListView use:

<ListView android:id="@+id/my_list" android:listSelector="#00000000" />

Lamont

yeah, but i want my selector to work again for the next click on a list item... if I do this then the selector is invisible, right? – Tamper

Oh maybe this can help.. – Lamont

Answer 5

You can set a selector after click:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<item android:drawable="@drawable/transparent_white" android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/transparent_white" android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/transparent_white" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/transparent_white" android:state_focused="false"/>

and the @drawable/transparent_white is #00ffffff

Hideaway

Answer 6

try this

Create your own selector xml file like this

YourSelector.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item android:state_enabled="false" android:state_focused="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/item_disabled" />
  <item android:state_pressed="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/item_pressed" />
  <item android:state_focused="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/item_focused" />
</selector>

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Headword

Answer 7

Nothing of the solutions actually worked for me. My listview is for listing the searched items and has a provision to redo the search. On getting the result I added the following code snippet and it worked :)

myAdapter.setSelectedIndex(-1);

Electrolytic

What type is your myAdapter? I couldn't find this method neither for ListView nor for ArrayAdapter. – Lashonda

Answer 8

Your selector resource seems to be wrong here. You should use a drawable with transparent background, and i think this is what actually colors your rows, but not choiceMode of the ListView. Please check this another answer for more details.

Seismic