Scrolling a ListView changes everything from White to Black

I have a custom list view and I want the background of the list to be white, so I do something like this which works great.

listView = (ListView) this.findViewById(R.id.listview);
listView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

The problem is when you scroll the list the background of all the list items changes to black, which looks horrible.

I tried in my list view setting the background color to white. When I inflate the view I also tried setting the background color to white:

view.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

Both of these fix the problem of the scrolling background color, but now the item doesn't appear to be clickable even though it is. What I mean by that is the onClick still works fine, but the background doesn't flash to orange to let the user know he clicked it.

How can I have a white background in a list view, that stays white while scrolling, and does the normal list acitvity orange click background?

Thanks!

The solution is very simple, you also need to set the cache color hint to white: setCacheColorHint(Color.WHITE). You don't need to change the list items' background color.

ListView lv = getListView();
setCacheColorHint(0);

Set the cache color hint to zero.

Solution is very simple, you also need to set the cache color hint to black in xml.

android:cacheColorHint="#000000"

Android attempts to improve the performance of ListView scrolling by caching layout information. If you have long scrolling lists of data you should also set the the android:cacheColorHint property on the ListView declaration in the Activity’s AXML definition (to the same color value as your custom row layout’s background). Failure to include this hint could result in a ‘flicker’ as the user scrolls through a list with custom row background colors. So give the same color to the listitem's background and android:cacheColorHint.you can refer below code.

In my Adapter layout I gave as

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/ADAPTER_CONTAINER_PRIMARY"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FAFAEE"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:gravity="center">
     .....

And in the List view

<ListView
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="fill_parent"
			android:id="@+id/LIST_GRID_LIST_INSTANCES"
			android:focusableInTouchMode="true"		
	        android:smoothScrollbar="true"
			android:divider="@drawable/Gray"
	    	android:dividerHeight="0.05dp"
	    	android:cacheColorHint="#FAFAEE"
			android:background="@drawable/round"/>

If your ListView is drawn atop a more complex background -- say, a bitmap or gradient -- then you may need to disable the scroll cache entirely. I ended up setting android:scrollingCache="false" on my ListView to resolve this issue.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AbsListView.html#attr_android:scrollingCache