How to get getSelectedView() to work in GridView?

I have a GridView in a layout. It is populated with Foo views by the activity using a extended BaseAdapter.

When I select an item in this grid it gets orange tinted (thus selected). That's nice. But I want to access this selection from outside the GridVie开发者_开发百科w and it's parent activity: from within another View higher in the layout hierarchy. I therefor call upon gridView.getSelectedItem(). However it always returns null.

How could I get this to work?

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"Selection" doesn't mean the same thing in AndroidOS as it does in other UIs. In particular, there isn't any "selected item" when you're in touch mode. You probably need to use a click listener instead of relying on there being a "selected item". See this article for details.

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You can use the following to get the view:

View childView = gridView.getChildAt(position - gridView.getFirstVisiblePosition());