Android SelectableItemBackground not working

Question

XML Layout

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="48dp"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground"
android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingEnd="16dp"
android:paddingLeft="16dp"
android:paddingRight="16dp"
android:paddingStart="16dp">

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/icon"
    android:layout_width="24dp"
    android:layout_height="24dp"
    android:layout_marginEnd="32dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="32dp" />


<RobotoTextView
    android:id="@+id/title"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="start|center_vertical"
    android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
    android:textSize="14sp"
    app:typeface="roboto_medium"
    android:textColor="@color/primary_text"/>

This is the layout for my rows in a recyclerview, I have used "?attr/selectableItemBackground" before and it worked great, but nothing is making this ripple effect work! Does anybody have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Turns out, the selectableItemBackground was working all along, it was hidden with a combination of a white backgrounnd and the ThemeOverlay.AppCompat, i put the Light theme to each row and the ripple was then visible.