Android ripple background color

It's a lot easier to do with styles:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">   ...   <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/ripple_material_dark</item>   ...</style>

You can control the colour of the RippleDrawable by doing the following:

RippleDrawable rippleDrawable = (RippleDrawable)view.getBackground(); // assumes bg is a RippleDrawableint[][] states = new int[][] { new int[] { android.R.attr.state_enabled} };int[] colors = new int[] { Color.BLUE }; // sets the ripple color to blueColorStateList colorStateList = new ColorStateList(states, colors);rippleDrawable.setColor(colorStateList);

Or, via XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><ripple    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:color="#FFFF0000"> <!-- The ripple will be red -->    <!-- the normal bg color will be light grey -->    <item>        <color android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />    </item>    <!-- make sure the ripple doesn't exceed the bounds -->    <item android:id="@android:id/mask">        <shape android:shape="rectangle">            <solid android:color="?android:colorAccent" />        </shape>    </item></ripple>

EDIT

After seeing @i.shadrin's answer below, I must admit it's a much simpler approach (using styles). If this is an option for you, I would recommend it.

add these two line of code inside of your view to give ripple effect .

android:clickable="true"android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground"