Programmatically set '?selectableItemBackground' on Android view

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));
}

For those who work with Kotlin, here are some extensions functions to add Ripple on Android View type :

private fun View.addRipple() = with(TypedValue()) {
    context.theme.resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground, this, true)
    setBackgroundResource(resourceId)
}

private fun View.addCircleRipple() = with(TypedValue()) {
    context.theme.resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.selectableItemBackgroundBorderless, this, true)
    setBackgroundResource(resourceId)
}

For appcompat you can use,

TypedValue outValue = new TypedValue();
getContext().getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground, outValue, true);
cardView.setBackgroundResource(outValue.resourceId);