How to use RippleDrawable programmatically in code (not xml) with Android 5.0 Lollipop?

Question

I have the following code for my ripple:

Answer 1

Basically, you need to create a new RippleDrawable object. For pre-Lollipop devices, you want a StateListDrawable (as others already suggested). I've written a somewhat resourceful GIST with a bunch of useful methods related to Drawables and coloring: https://gist.github.com/milosmns/6566ca9e3b756d922aa5

Most likely you will want to use #getBackgroundDrawable() from that singleton.