title: Default background on ListView Item
body: <p>This one is driving me crazy:</p>
  
  <p>I have a ListView where I want to change the child's background when it is selected. The List Items have a default background, but when there is a background on the items, the selected item doesn't change color...</p>
  
  <p>Let me visualize this a bit:</p>
  
  <p>When I set A background color to the ListView's children I get this:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sKrbi.jpg" alt="listitems with background"></p>
  
  <p>This is the code of a child in the ListView:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:background="@drawable/list_selector_normal"&gt;
  
      &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/title_view"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:paddingBottom="5dp" /&gt;
  
      &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/description_view"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content" /&gt;
  
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I Set some selectors to the listView in the main layout</p>
  
  <pre><code>    android:listSelector="@drawable/list_selector"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The selected list item does not change color...</p>
  
  <p>But when I remove the background from the list item (line 5 in the first code block) the selectors do work, but my background is gone:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3FkAB.jpg" alt="listitems without background"></p>
  
  <p>The selectors xml code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" &gt;
      &lt;item android:state_pressed="true"
            android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_pressed" /&gt; &lt;!-- pressed --&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_focused="true"
            android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_focussed" /&gt; &lt;!-- focused --&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_hovered="true"
            android:drawable="@color/blue" /&gt; &lt;!-- hovered --&gt;
      &lt;item android:drawable="@color/blue" /&gt; &lt;!-- default --&gt;
  &lt;/selector&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way (there should be) where I can keep my background (first image) and change the color of the selected item (second image)?</p>