Listview selector with colored background and ripple effect

I've managed to get individually colored list items while maintaining the ripple effect. Set the background of your list items using whatever adapter you have and set the listview to show the selector on top:

<ListView    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="match_parent"    android:drawSelectorOnTop="true" />

This will draw the ripple effect above the background.

As far as I can tell this bug is only in Android 5.0, not 5.1. The trick seems to be to use Drawable#setHotspot as a Google dev hints to here https://twitter.com/crafty/status/561768446149410816 (because obscure twitter hints are a great form of documentation!)

Assume you have a row layout something like this

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="match_parent">      <LinearLayout            android:id="@+id/row_content"            android:layout_width="match_parent"            android:layout_height="wrap_content"            android:orientation="horizontal"            android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground">          .... content here .....     </LinearLayout></FrameLayout>

The following worked for me

            row.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {                @Override                public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {                    v.findViewById(R.id.row_content)                        .getBackground()                        .setHotspot(event.getX(), event.getY());                    return(false);                }            });

I've found that it only seems to work correctly if you apply the background to the root element of the list item.

Also, consider using the new RecyclerView instead of a ListView

List item view example:

<RelativeLayout    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/list_padding"    android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/list_padding"    android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/list_padding"    android:padding="@dimen/list_padding"    android:background="@drawable/ripple_bg">    <TextView        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="Large Text"        android:id="@+id/tvTitle"/>    <TextView        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="Small Text"        android:id="@+id/tvSubtitle" /></RelativeLayout>