title: Changing the background image of a Activity which extends ListActivity
body: <p>I followed the tutorial at: <a href="http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-listview/" rel="nofollow">http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-listview/</a> 
  and was able to successfully run the application. It mainly uses a xml file called list_item.xml and its contents are </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;TextView
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:textSize="24dp"
  android:padding="6dp" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And in a file called TutListActivity.java, this xml is loaded as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class TutListActivity extends ListActivity {
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
      setListAdapter(ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(getApplicationContext(),
              R.array.tut_titles, R.layout.list_item));
  }}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>AND THIS IS THE FIRST ACTIVITY WHICH GETS LOADED WHEN THE APPLICATION IS LAUNCHED FIRST. My requirement is TO CHANGE THE BACKGROUND VIEW OF THE COMPLETE SCREEN. When I tried android:background=@drawable/paperImage in the xml file list_item.xml, I was able to change the background image of each of the rows in the List and not the complete View. Can anyone help me out ?</p>