GridView children don't display focus

Question

In an android app, I have a GridView holding TextView created by an adapter. In those TextView I add an icon which has three states (pressed, selected and default.) I removed the default selector of the GridView with android:listSelector="#00000000" and I would like the selected state of the icon to display instead. But although the pressed state works (ie when the TextView is pressed, the pressed version of the icons is shown) the seleted doesn't.

I've tried those tricks (found at different places on the web) but it didn't work either:

setting

android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants"

or
```
android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
```
or (in the TextViews)
```
android:duplicateParentState="true" />
```

And if I set the TextView to be focusable, it gets focus independently of the GridView (ie, clicking on it doesn't call the GridView onClick method...)

The icon is defined in a xml file like this:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item android:state_focused="true"
    android:state_pressed="true"
    android:drawable="@drawable/ic_flag_bg_pressed"/>
  <item android:state_focused="false"
    android:state_pressed="true"
    android:drawable="@drawable/ic_flag_bg_pressed"/>
  <item android:state_focused="true"
    android:drawable="@drawable/ic_flag_bg_selected"/>
  <item android:state_focused="false"
    android:state_pressed="false"
    android:drawable="@drawable/ic_flag_bg_default"/>
</selector>

Is there a way to tell the GridView to pass the focused state to its children ?

biorbnA biorbnA · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-20T06:17:14

Got stuck on this as well. An alternate approach that can look okay is to use a border style selector and draw it on top.

GridView children don't display focus

1 Answers