How to Implement Ripple Effect in Android

In this tip, I’m going to show you to implement ripple effect/animation in your android application. Now, you can easily add ripple effect/animation in your android, layouts, buttons, textviews, etc. and you can also change its color. Note that, this ripple effect will only show on device running lollipop and above.

Here, I have mentioned two different methods to implement ripple animation in your android application.

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Method 1 - To Implement Ripple Effect/Animation in Android

To implement effect on press/click just add android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground" or android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackgroundBorderless" in android View or ViewGroup as background.

Method 2: To Implement Ripple Effect/Animation in Android

Using this method, you can customize ripple effect color. First, you have to create an xml file in your drawable resource directory. Create a ripple_effect.xml file and add following code.
res/drawable/ripple_effect.xml

And set background to above drawable resource file. Final code of xml layout activity looks like this.
res/layout/ripple_animation.xml