Background Ripple Effect on StandAlone Toolbar items is gone

Question

Using the Standalone toolbar has an issue with the select able background of the items, following this article didn\'t work also:

http://blog.mohitkanwal.com/blog/20

Answer 1

Chris Bane answer on the original issue:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=176431

This is because by default ?attr/actionBarItemBackground is an unbounded RippleDrawable, which means that it projects/draws onto the next parent. In this case, this is the CollapsingToolbarLayout which you can't actually see.

There's not much we can do here from a library perspective. The 'workaround' is to set actionBarItemBackground to not be borderless: