I need to set alternate color in list view rows but when i do that it removes/ disables the on focus default yellow background

I tried with backgroundColor rowView.setBackgroundColor(SOME COLOR);

also with backgrounddrwable. rowView.setBackgroundColor(R.drawable.view_odd_row_bg);

<!-- Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state. -->
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/highlight" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="@color/highlight" />

<item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/highlight" />
<item android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/highlight" />

<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@color/highlight" />

but it wont work.

is there any way we can set background color and on focus color simultaneously which will work.