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

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:

   #ffffff
   #7ecce8
   

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

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

   android:background="@drawable/button_selection"