Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item

To solve this problem:

1- You don't need android:listSelector under your ListView.

2- Open (or Create) styles.xml under (res/values).

<!-- Base application theme. --><style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->    <item name="android:activatedBackgroundIndicator">@drawable/drawer_list_selector</item></style>

3- Under res/drawable folder create drawer_list_selector.xml file

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">    <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/light_gray_color" />    <item android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="@drawable/red_color" />    <item android:drawable="@android:color/transparent" /></selector>

4- Under res/drawable create red_color.xml / light_gray_color.xml (or any other name) and add your desired Hex color:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">    <solid android:color="#C8FF0000"/></shape>

5- Open your project AndroidManifest.xml and add android:theme tag (if not exist)

<application    android:allowBackup="true"    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"    android:label="@string/app_name"    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

Reference / Credit: Changing Navigation Drawer Selected Item Color from default blue

To change the "Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item" you could do it with the attribut:

colorControlHighlight

In your "styles.xml" it could look like this:

<style name="YourStyleNameFor.NavigationDrawer" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/your_highlight_color</item></style>

Don't forget to apply your Style in the tag:

android.support.design.widget.NavigationView

For example in your activity_main.xml it could look like this:

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView    android:id="@+id/nav_view"    android:layout_width="wrap_content"    android:layout_height="match_parent"    android:layout_gravity="start"    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"    app:headerLayout="@layout/navigationdrawer_header"    <!-- the following line referes to your style  -->    app:theme="@style/YourThemeNameFor.NavigationDrawer"    <!-- the following two lines are maybe also interesting for you -->    app:itemIconTint="@color/gray3"    app:itemTextColor="@color/gray3"    app:menu="@menu/navigationdrawer_main" />

This is working for me:

1. First define a drawable item_bg.xml as:

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

2. Then use this drawable in navigation_main_layout.xml as:

   <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView    android:id="@+id/nav_view"    android:layout_width="wrap_content"    android:layout_height="match_parent"    android:layout_gravity="start"    app:itemBackground="@drawable/item_bg"    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_navigation"    app:menu="@menu/navigation_main_layout_drawer" />