Context Menu

Lets create a CONTEXT MENU. This menu appears n screen when you long click an UI component.

To begin you need to make a UI component on whose long click the context menu would appear.

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="145dp"
        android:text="Context Menu"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="18dp"
        android:text="Menu which appears on long click"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

Then create 2 menu items to be shown in the context menu.

 <item

        android:id="@+id/item1"

        android:orderInCategory="100"

        android:showAsAction="never"

        android:title="Menu Item 1"/>

    <item

        android:id="@+id/item2"

        android:orderInCategory="100"

        android:showAsAction="never"

        android:title="Menu Item 2"/>

Now in the onCreate(), you need to register the component for the context menu after getting its reference from the layout file. And then write the code to make the menu working.

package com.codingredefined.androidcontextmenu;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.view.ContextMenu;

import android.view.ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.MenuInflater;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.TextView;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity 

{

TextView tv;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 

{

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);

registerForContextMenu(tv);

}

@Override

public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo)

{

super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);

MenuInflater inflater=getMenuInflater();

inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

}

@Override

public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item)

{

switch(item.getItemId())

{

case R.id.item1:

Toast.makeText(this, "Menu Item 1 Selected", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

break;

case R.id.item2:

Toast.makeText(this, "Menu Item 2 Selected", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

break;

}

return true;

}

}

After completing the above mentioned steps, your output should look like...