10 thoughts on “Android : How to programmatically click / select / tap a listview item”

1. MK 11/16/2011 at 6:21 pm

   Thank you, simple and useful tip!

   However, the arguments seems to be pretty redundant….

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2. David B. 09/21/2012 at 3:33 pm

   I tried this and it works at the most cases, the only strange case that I could not figure out yet why it happens, is when you rotate the device then I call a performClick to say Position cero, the onClickListener is called and the DetailView for the positioned cero is called, BUT if the last activated item was positioned 3, positioned 3 still continues highlighted.

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3. kim hs 06/13/2013 at 7:45 pm

   Thank you, so much!!!!!

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4. Cooler 07/17/2013 at 5:56 am

   Thank you!

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5. Porroe 02/27/2014 at 4:26 pm

   I think this should be:

   listView1.performItemClick(listView1getChildAt(3), 3, listView1.getItemIdAtPosition(3));

   So you send just the row you need and not the whole listview.

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6. Parth 10/14/2014 at 6:05 am

   code working for me,Thanks

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7. anonymous 05/31/2015 at 11:06 am

   thanks

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8. Shahzad 10/15/2017 at 9:29 am

   thx but its do not highlite the index of my listview

   i am using custom array adapter for bind listview

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9. Rajan Maurya 02/23/2018 at 1:51 am

   Thanks It worked for me.

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10. Michal 03/22/2018 at 4:37 am

    How to read the coordinates of the touch (in the touch event)
    send the correct position in the performItemClick command?

    I would also like to handle touches in an empty space on the list.

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