TabWidget background color change

Question

I want to change the background color of the TabWidget. I have a picture for the tab that I don't want to change, I only want to change the background color of that Image without replacing it with another image, here is my code.

<?xml version ="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <!-- When selected color blue -->
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/profile"
        android:state_selected="true"/>
    <!-- When NOT selected color black -->
    <item android:state_selected="false" android:drawable="@drawable/profile">

    </item>
</selector>

For example in the following line(When is selected) to put something like..

<item android:state_selected="false" android:drawable="@drawable/profile" android:backgroundColor="#5397CB">

and in the NOTselected state to be black..

<item android:state_selected="false" android:drawable="@drawable/profile" android:backgroundColor="#fffff">