Make a circular ripple effect on a button when it’s being clicked November 24, 2017 If you are using AppCompat theme, then you could set the background of the view as: android:background="?selectableItemBackgroundBorderless" This will add circular ripple on 21 and above and square background on below 21. References https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31941753/how-to-make-a-circular-ripple-on-a-button-when-its-being-clicked Related