Programmatically set '?selectableItemBackground' on Android view

Question

In xml, I often do this to emulate onClick effect:

Answer 1

I was looking for the same solution. I slightly changed this answer to make it more suitable for the asked question. Call the following code from your constructor.

private void setClickableAnimation(Context context)
{
    TypedValue outValue = new TypedValue();
    context.getTheme().resolveAttribute( 
        android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground, outValue, true);        
    setForeground(getDrawable(context, outValue.resourceId));
}