Listview selector with colored background and ripple effect

Question

Standard ListView selector in android L developer preview uses colorControlHighlight for the ripple effect on touch and has a transparent backgroun

Answer 1

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

      

          .... content here .....

     

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);
                }
            });