Disable Android GridView highlighting completely (disable selection)

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I'm trying to disable the highlighting of objects in a GridView in Android 2.2.

I found this other answer saying that I should set the selector to a transparent ColorDrawable (android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent"), but the views in my GridView are still dimmed when I select them.

I'm just using the GridView to display static objects in a grid. None of these objects will be selected. Would it be better to just use a basic view and draw my images manually?

check this out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18415844/disable-gridview-item-onclick-and-enable-only-on-child-view — sushmita, Feb 05 '15 at 05:26

score 39 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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For keeping the items clickable you should use below attr. in your GridView xml:

android:listSelector="#00000000"

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2866074/928591

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Oct 19 '11 at 15:10

Maikel Bollemeijer

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@Radu This solution was explicitly mentioned in the question as not working. – blahdiblah Nov 26 '13 at 23:26
better use android:listSelector="@null" – Dmitry Guselnikov Feb 05 '15 at 17:46

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 13 '19 at 19:00

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In the definition of your Adapter for the GridView, you will have to override the following methods:

@Override
public boolean areAllItemsEnabled()
{
    return false;
}

@Override
public boolean isEnabled(int position)
{
    return false;
}

This will cause all of the items in your grid to be non-selectable, and will get rid of the highlight completely.

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blahdiblah

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answered Jul 06 '10 at 14:17

Kenny

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If you need childs to be focusable try android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" – eveliotc Jan 30 '11 at 17:46
thanks a lot here, if you have custom objects in your list (views..) and overwrite their onclicklistener, you can select them :=) perfect :) – cV2 Dec 19 '11 at 16:41
this disable item selection altogether – coderek Aug 14 '13 at 07:27

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 05 '12 at 12:45

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Just Set v.setOnClickListener(null);

edited Apr 05 '12 at 12:45

Andro Selva

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answered Aug 30 '10 at 19:34

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This is in your Adapter.getView method – jfleong Aug 30 '10 at 19:39
I still needed to be able to get click events for the GridView, but I'm sure that would work in other situations. – Kenny Aug 31 '10 at 12:10
this will create an exception – eyadMhanna Aug 26 '15 at 15:09

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 22 '15 at 19:03

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If you just want to disable the visual aspect of the selection, you can do the following:

gridview.getSelector().setAlpha(0);

answered Jun 22 '15 at 19:03

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Disable Android GridView highlighting completely (disable selection)

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