android listview alternate row color BUT with default cursor selection

Question

i have been all over the web, stackoverflow included and just can\'t seem to get a clear complete way to

I want to create a ListView that

1) has alternating

Answer 1

A workaround is to use 2 selectors. From your adapter, instead of setting 2 colors, you set 2 selectors.

if (position % 2 == 0) {
  view.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selector_1);
} else {
  view.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.selector_2);
}

selector_1 is defined in selector_1.xml like this:

selector_2 is defined in selector_2.xml like this:

So that, you have a bi-color listview and a third color/shape/whatever-you-want for selected item.