GridView SelectedItem indicator not present on Windows Phone Xaml - c#

on Windows 8.1 below code indicates the selected item of GridView. But on Windows Phone Xaml same code doesn't work like that. There isn't any visual indicator for selected item at all.(or i couldn't get it to work) How can i make it work like this on Windows Phone App too?
<GridView
x:Name="productColorChoices"
SelectionMode="Single"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource productColorChoice_ItemTemplate}">
<GridView.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VariableSizedWrapGrid
Orientation="Horizontal" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</GridView.ItemsPanel>
</GridView>

If you go look at the GridViewItem default style template you'll see towards the bottom you have these objects in there;
SelectedBorder
SelectedCheckMarkOuter
SelectedCheckMark
SelectedEarmark
Which is what makes up the visuals for that selected outline/checkmark thingy on the GridView items. They all get shown according to the VisualState for Selected
Now, if you go and look at the phone's default style template for the GridViewItem's (which I couldn't find the default one for with a quick google search and I don't have a phone project open to go dig through) then you can compare. If these types of elements don't exist in the phone templates then you can go add them the same way using pretty much the same objects and the same storyboards in the same VisualState.
Hope this helps, cheers.

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