Default selector background in Clickable Views

Question

I have some clickable views and I want to set the default available background that is present on list click (in ICS is a blue color). I have tried putting as background thi

Answer 1

If you are using appcompat-v7, you can just use ?attr/selectableItemBackground.

Answer 2

This works fine on api 11 and above. But as noted it wont work on previous versions.

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

Here is a solution to have it run on all versions running android.

1. Add the appropriate colors within the colors.xml which is located within your values folder. It should appear as such:

   <color name="white">#ffffff</color>
   <color name="blue">#7ecce8</color>
   

2. Create an xml selector file. Here I named it button_selection.xml

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
   <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/blue"/>         <!--pressed -->
   <item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@color/blue"/> <!-- focused -->
   <item android:drawable="@color/white"/> <!-- default -->
   </selector> 
   

3. Go to your view or button and set the newly created button_selection.xml as its background.

   android:background="@drawable/button_selection"
   

Answer 3

This works for me:

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