I am not sure if you can do this, but essentially what I am trying to do is to use a CursorAdapter with a list that has two different views. To be more specific, I am trying to have a different view for an item in the list that's selected than the rest of the items in the list that's not selected. Is this possible?

If so how? some code snippet would help greatly

You should implement your own Adapter, which then return different views based on the type of data the list asks for.