title: Android: Overwrite standard xml layout's properties for list item
body: <p>Is there a way of using the standard android xml files (simple list item multiple choices) and only adjust some of the properties so that I can also use the standard adapters? For now I made a new view xml and copied the code from simple_list_item_multiple_choice. There I only added a background color. This works, but now I have the almost same code 2 times.</p>
  
  <p>I also know that custom view and custom adapter would work, but I hope there is a more "smart" solution for this (in my case really only the background color matters, the rest is fine). It seems a lot more code for only changing the background color of an item.</p>
  
  <p>I thought with include/merge tags I could include the standard xml and justify to my needs, but this doesnt work (also because I couldn't use the standard arrayAdapter anymore)</p>
  
  <p>This is how my view looks now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;CheckedTextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:id="@android:id/text1"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
      android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
      android:gravity="center_vertical"
      android:checkMark="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorMultiple"
      android:paddingLeft="6dip"
      android:paddingRight="6dip"
      android:ellipsize="end"
      android:singleLine="true"
      android:background="@color/white"
      /&gt;
  </code></pre>