Android ListView does not gets selected when an OnClickListener is set -

i using listview custom adapter , selector have set background of listview row item parent layout. when not setting onclick listener parent layout of listview item, selector working fine , row gets selected. setting onclick listener parent layout of listview item , selector not working. i don't want use onitemclicklistener have take care of things listview adapter.

i have been searching hours didn't got clue. please help. thanks

my custom adapter class

    public class customadapter extends baseadapter {      private final string[] mnotificationlist;     private static layoutinflater inflater = null;     private activity mactivity;      public customadapter(activity activity,string[] data) {         mactivity = activity;         mnotificationlist = data;         inflater = (layoutinflater)       activity.getsystemservice(context.layout_inflater_service);      }      @override     public int getcount() {         if(mnotificationlist == null){             return 0;         }                    else{             return mnotificationlist.length;         }                }     @override     public object getitem(int position) {         return position;     }     @override     public long getitemid(int id) {         return id;     }      @override     public view getview(final int position, view converterview, viewgroup parent) {         if (converterview == null){             converterview = inflater.inflate(r.layout.notification_list_row, null);         }          notificationlistholder listrowholder =     (notificationlistholder)converterview.gettag();          if(listrowholder==null) {            listrowholder = new notificationlistholder();            initializeview(listrowholder,converterview);         }          bindview(listrowholder,mnotificationlist[position]);         return converterview;     }      private void bindview(notificationlistholder listrowholder, string notificationdetails) {         listrowholder.articlename.settext(notificationdetails);         listrowholder.parentlayout.setonclicklistener(new onclicklistener() {              @override             public void onclick(view v) {                 toast.maketext(mactivity, "toast",toast.length_short).show();              }         });     }      private void initializeview(notificationlistholder listrowholder,view converterview) {         listrowholder.parentlayout = (linearlayout) converterview.findviewbyid(r.id.notificationlist_row_layout);         listrowholder.articlename = (textview) converterview.findviewbyid(r.id.article_text);         converterview.settag(listrowholder);     }      public static class notificationlistholder{         public linearlayout parentlayout;         public textview articlename;     } } 

list row item xml

<relativelayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id="@+id/notificationlist_row_layout"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:background="@drawable/list_selector" >         <textview                     android:id="@+id/article_text"                     android:layout_width="wrap_content"                     android:layout_height="50dp"                     android:layout_alignparentleft="true"                     android:layout_marginright="40dp"                      android:textappearance="?android:attr/textappearancemedium"                     android:textcolor="@android:color/black"                     android:textstyle="bold" />       <textview                     android:id="@+id/text"                     android:layout_width="wrap_content"                     android:layout_height="50dp"                     android:layout_alignparentleft="true"                     android:layout_marginright="40dp"                     android:text="second view"                      android:layout_below="@+id/article_text"                     android:textappearance="?android:attr/textappearancemedium"                     android:textcolor="@android:color/black"                     android:textstyle="bold" /> </relativelayout> 

list selector xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>     <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">       <item          android:state_selected="true"          android:drawable="@color/msg_read_bg" />       <item          android:state_pressed="true"          android:drawable="@color/msg_read_bg" />     <item          android:state_activated="true"          android:drawable="@color/msg_read_bg" />      <item          android:state_active="true"          android:drawable="@color/msg_read_bg" />      <item          android:state_focused="true"          android:drawable="@color/msg_read_bg" />       <item android:drawable="@android:color/white" />  </selector>