24. Exercise: Code Your Own Selector

Code Your Own Touch Selector

In this exercise, you'll create and add a touch selector to items in a RecyclerView, which will improve the interactivity of the layout.

Exercise Code

Exercise: T12.04-Exercise-TouchSelector

Follow the steps below to create your own selector.
SOLUTION:
  • Create a new selector resource in the drawables folder, named list_item_selector
  • Add three items for pressed, activated, and selected states with a drawable background color of colorPrimaryLight
  • Add one more item for the default, unselected, background color
  • In the list item xml, set the touch selector as the background property of the layout

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