How can I highlight the table row on click ?

Solution 1:

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).

Solution 2:

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>

Solution 3:

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).