Android: disabling highlight on listView click

Add this to your xml:

android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent"

And for the problem this may work (I'm not sure and I don't know if there are better solutions):

You could apply a ColorStateList to your TextView.

From ListView: Disable Focus Highlight,

when you set your ListAdapter use the following code

ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(MyList, Layout, c, 
                new String[] { "Name", "Score" }, to) 
{ 
    public boolean areAllItemsEnabled() 
    { 
        return false; 
    } 
    public boolean isEnabled(int position) 
    { 
        return false; 
    } 
}; 

This will override the BaseAdapter class. It also cancels the white border between cells.

RoflcoptrException's answer should do the trick,but for some reason it did not work for me, So I am posting the solution which worked for me, hope it helps someone

<ListView 
android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent" 
android:cacheColorHint="@android:color/transparent"
/>

The orange highlight effect is a style on the ListView. This article gives a good overview of how to override the listView style.

Essentially, you have a selector that specifies different style elements based on the current state.

see this for short and quick solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/12242564/185022