I tried the answer here, but it didn\'t work for me. I am using an xml as background and getting exceptiion - Resources$NotFoundException: File res/drawable/list_selec
Basically no, it's a bug that was fixed in Lollipop. The suggestion (until you can minSdkVersion=21) is to create a different drawable XML file for each different color you need (and have that as a theme attribute, I assume).
The duplicate question, answers and comments discuss this bug: How to reference colour attribute in drawable?