Create Simple list Dialog With Default Checked item

Question

I'm trying to showing a simple list dialog, with the default selected item by gray background. I know we can use setItems() to show the list, but how do I set the checked item background to gray?

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(ctx);

builder.setTitle(elementInfo.getName())
       .setItems(items, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                                    editText.setText(items[which]);
                                    elementInfo.setValue(elementInfo.getElementListValues().get(which).getValue());
                                    updateSelection(elementInfo, which);
                                    dialog.dismiss();
                                }
                            });
                            builder.create().show();

Following is the effort I want as Material Design Tutorial describes: https://material.io/guidelines/components/dialogs.html#dialogs-simple-dialogs