Android Alternate row Colors in ListView

The Background color for a custom listview row can be set with

row.setBackgroundResource(R.color.list_bg_2)

method in custom listview adapter in

getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)

I have tried many things like row.setBackgroundColor(0xFF00DD) but couldn't get it done,

here list_bg_2 is a color set res/values/color.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="list_bg_1">#ffffff</color>
    <color name="list_bg_2">#fef2e8</color>
</resources>

Here is how to do that.

My example code is given here in brief:

Override the getView method in your adapter:

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {  
View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);  
if (position % 2 == 1) {
    view.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);  
} else {
    view.setBackgroundColor(Color.CYAN);  
}

return view;  
}

Override ArrayAdapter and override getView method there.

So if your adapter is something like this:

public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter

Your ListActivity will change like this:

 ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new MyAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, Str.S);

Here's an example about overriding ArrayAdapter.

if (position % 2 == 0) {

    rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#A4A4A4"));

} else {

    rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#FFBF00"));

}