Android how to make View highlight when clicked?
Ok I have finally figured out how to do this...basically it is done using a selector like the color selector linked by style except instead of 'color' use a drawable for the states and you can refer to the default list drawable that is used in ListView by this:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@android:drawable/list_selector_background" /> </selector>and using this xml as the background for my View.
All the public default drawables can be found here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.drawable.html
I was able to do the same with a text view that I wanted to behave like a list item by using:
<Textview....android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background"/>