My ListView backgrounds go black during scrolling - how to fix?

Question

Ive specified white backgrounds for pretty much all widgets and it works, except when scrolling. The background container goes black during scrolling resulting in annoying flickering.

Solution 1

You will need to use the setCacheColorHint() method of ListView.

Example: list.setCacheColorHint(yourBackColor);

Explanation of the issue and solution here

Solution 2

ScrollingCache="false" in your activity's *.xml file for the list object should do the trick, too.

Comments

[Eno]

Just wanted to add this in case someone else finds this thread. I used 'android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"' on the ListView layout to fix.

[Romain Guy]

That's a terrible idea, it makes scrolling/flinging the list a lot slower.

[ubuntudroid]

Oh, good to know! For me it always worked well. Nevertheless, I will avoid this in the future and use the setCacheColorHint() solution... Thanks!