How can I highlight the table row on click ?

If you want to use the stock on click highlight like you get with a generic ListView, you want to set the background of each row to be android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background"

Here is an example:

<TableLayout  android:layout_width="fill_parent"  android:layout_height="wrap_content"  android:stretchColumns="0">  <TableRow     android:id="@+id/first_row"     android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background" >    ... row content ...  </TableRow></TableLayout>

Then in code,

TableRow firstRow = (TableRow) findViewById(R.id.first_row);firstRow.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {       @Override        public void onClick(View v) {            // TODO: do your logic here        }   }

And you should get a highlight-able row just like in a ListView...

EDIT:Above will give you the default theme's list background selector. If you want the more generic selector (like the material design selector when the user touches a row) use this:

android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"

Also this applies to more than just TableRows. You should be able to do this on almost any generic widget with an onClickListener attached (TextViews, Buttons, etc).

Even I was facing the same problem with the help of salil pandit answer made a little change to it and that works for me

This is TableRow in xml:

<TableRow        android:id="@+id/tableRow1"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="0dp"        android:layout_weight="1"        android:padding="5dip"         android:background="@drawable/selector">

This is selector.xml in res\drawable folder

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

Within the onclicklistener add:

 tr1.setBackgroundResource(drawable.list_selector_background);

Where tr1 is your tablerow. (you will need to make the tablerow final for it to work).