Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item

Solution 1:

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

Solution 2:

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" />

Solution 3:

This is working for me:

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>

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" />

Solution 4:

here is how i have done and it is working, the brief concept is maintain the position of selected item in adapter and call notifyDataSetChanged on calling notifyDatasetChanged the getView method is called again and in get view check the position on the selected position change the background view. Here is the code :

Adapter of NavigationDrawer List View

public class MenuAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

private static final int TYPE_HEADER = 0;
private static final int TYPE_ITEM = 1;
private Context mContext;
private String name;
private int profile;
private int mIcons[];
private int selectedPosition = 0;
private String mNavTitles[];
private LayoutInflater mInflater;

public MenuAdapter(String titles[], int icon[], String Name, int profile) {
    mNavTitles = titles;
    mIcons = icon;
    name = Name;
    this.profile = profile;
}

public MenuAdapter(String Titles[], int Icons[], Context mContext) {
    mNavTitles = Titles;
    mIcons = Icons;
    this.mContext = mContext;
    mInflater = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return mNavTitles.length;
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int position) {
    return position;
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
    return position;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.item_row, parent, false);

    TextView textView = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.rowText);
    ImageView imageView = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.rowIcon);
    final LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) convertView.findViewById(R.id.outerLayout);

    imageView.setImageResource(mIcons[position]);
    textView.setText(mNavTitles[position]);

    if (position == selectedPosition)
        layout.setBackgroundColor(mContext.getResources().getColor(R.color.app_bg));
    else  
      layout.setBackgroundColor(mContext.getResources().getColor(R.color.normal_bg));

    return convertView;
}

public void setSelectedPosition(int position) {

    this.selectedPosition = position;

}


}

in your activity do this

 private class DrawerItemClickListener implements ListView.OnItemClickListener {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) { 
        mMenuAdapter.setSelectedPosition(position - 1);
        mMenuAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
}

if anyone still face any difficulty, feel free to ask.

Solution 5:

I have implement drawer menu with custom adapter class. May be it will help someone Drawer List

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/listview_drawer"
    android:layout_width="260dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:background="@color/menu_item_color"
    android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
    android:divider="@android:color/transparent"
    android:dividerHeight="0dp"
    android:fadingEdge="none"
    />

drawer_list_item.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:background="@drawable/menu_selector"
>

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imgIcon"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="12dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="12dp"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_menu_home" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/lblName"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imgIcon"
    android:minHeight="48dp"
    android:textColor="@color/menu_txt_color" />

menu_selector.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:exitFadeDuration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime">
<!-- selected -->
<item android:drawable="@color/menu_item_active_color" android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="false"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/menu_item_active_color" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/menu_item_active_color" android:state_activated="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/menu_item_active_color" android:state_checked="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/menu_item_active_color" android:state_selected="true"/>

<item android:drawable="@color/menu_item_color" android:state_activated="false"/>

Add this on item click listner of listview yourlistview.setItemChecked(position, true);