title: Changing color of custom listview item on focus
body: <p>I have created a custom list and managed to change the colors of the child items in normal and clicked view. But When I apply it to the focus view, then nothing happens and the default background color only gets displayed with the changed color of the text from white to black. Here are the xml files that I am using for what I have done so far. </p>
  
  <p>Layout for listview (listview.xml)</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:orientation="horizontal" android:padding="18sp"
      android:background="@drawable/backgroundselector"&gt;
      &lt;ImageView android:id="@+id/imageView1"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content" /&gt;
      &lt;TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/textView1"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:paddingLeft="10sp" android:textSize="20sp" /&gt;
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>clicked.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:shape="rectangle" &gt;
     &lt;solid android:color="#ffc61212" /&gt;
   &lt;/shape&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>focussed.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:shape="rectangle" &gt;
     &lt;solid android:color="#ff26e0d7" /&gt;
   &lt;/shape&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>normal.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:shape="rectangle" &gt;
     &lt;solid android:color="#ff0a4d66" /&gt;
   &lt;/shape&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and finally backgroundselector.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/focussed" /&gt; &lt;!-- focused --&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/clicked" /&gt; &lt;!-- pressed --&gt;
      &lt;item android:drawable="@drawable/normal" /&gt; &lt;!-- default --&gt;
  &lt;/selector&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please I need help on how can I change the color of the child item of my list view when a child item is focussed...</p>