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.

Answer 2

This is how I was able to achieve this.

Note that this is Api 21+ only so you will have to fallback to a normal Drawable if you support lower versions.

public static RippleDrawable getPressedColorRippleDrawable(int normalColor, int pressedColor)
{
    return new RippleDrawable(getPressedColorSelector(normalColor, pressedColor), getColorDrawableFromColor(normalColor), null);
}

public static ColorStateList getPressedColorSelector(int normalColor, int pressedColor)
{
    return new ColorStateList(
        new int[][]
            {
                new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed},
                new int[]{android.R.attr.state_focused},
                new int[]{android.R.attr.state_activated},
                new int[]{}
            },
        new int[]
            {
                pressedColor,
                pressedColor,
                pressedColor,
                normalColor
            }
    );
}

public static ColorDrawable getColorDrawableFromColor(int color)
{
    return new ColorDrawable(color);
}

Edit: I tinkered with this some more and discovered that the ColorStateList doesn't need to be nearly as complex as the above solution. I have simplified it to the below snippet. (Everything else in the above code block is the same. I only changed the ColorStateList creation.) I will leave the above block as the original, in case this method doesn't work for someone.

new ColorStateList(
    new int[][]
        {
            new int[]{}
        },
    new int[]
        {
            pressedColor
        }
);

Answer 3

public static Drawable getAdaptiveRippleDrawable(
    int normalColor, int pressedColor) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        return new RippleDrawable(ColorStateList.valueOf(pressedColor),
                null, getRippleMask(normalColor));
    } else {
        return getStateListDrawable(normalColor, pressedColor);
    }
}

private static Drawable getRippleMask(int color) {
    float[] outerRadii = new float[8];
    // 3 is radius of final ripple, 
    // instead of 3 you can give required final radius
    Arrays.fill(outerRadii, 3);

    RoundRectShape r = new RoundRectShape(outerRadii, null, null);
    ShapeDrawable shapeDrawable = new ShapeDrawable(r);
    shapeDrawable.getPaint().setColor(color);
    return shapeDrawable;
}

public static StateListDrawable getStateListDrawable(
    int normalColor, int pressedColor) {
    StateListDrawable states = new StateListDrawable();
    states.addState(new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed}, 
        new ColorDrawable(pressedColor));
    states.addState(new int[]{android.R.attr.state_focused}, 
        new ColorDrawable(pressedColor));
    states.addState(new int[]{android.R.attr.state_activated}, 
        new ColorDrawable(pressedColor));
    states.addState(new int[]{}, 
        new ColorDrawable(normalColor));
    return states;
}

You can get the drawable and apply to any view using view.setDrawable.
For Lollipop+ devices you will get ripple else it will change the color of view.