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. In your ' styles.xml' it could look like this: forget to apply your Style in the tag:Ī.NavigationViewįor example in your activity_main.xml it could look like this: /> To change the ' Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item' you could do it with the attribut: Reference / Credit: Changing Navigation Drawer Selected Item Color from default blue

Does anyone know why this is? And how I can change it?ġ- You don't need android:listSelector under your ListView.Ģ- Open (or Create) styles.xml under Under res/drawable folder create drawer_list_selector.xml file Ĥ- Under res/drawable create red_color.xml / light_gray_color.xml (or any other name) and add your desired Hex color: ĥ- Open your project AndroidManifest.xml and add android:theme tag (if not exist) So I tried modifying the '?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator' at the theme level but it has no effect for checked/selected/activated but it does for pressed. So the text view used for the listview is one within the SDK it looks like this: So if anyone knows where the activatedBackgroundIndicator could be put so that it would be used in getActionBar.getThemedContext() I think the themed context should be used. I've also realised if I the main part of my theme and change getActionBar().getThemedContext() for getActivity.getBaseContext then I can change the color but I don't think this is the correct way. I've tried a few different attributes with no luck.

I've been examining this more and when the adapter is created the context that is passed is getActionBar().getThemedContext() so I'm thinking if I can find the right attribute to assign to my actionbar style I can change it from there. state_pressed works in this situation but the currently selected item is still blue.

I've tried numerous things, I'm currently using a listSelector which looks like: I used Android Studio to implement the Navigation Drawer and I can't get the blue colour that is used to show which section we're currently in to change.

Navigation drawer selected text color