Floating Context Menu – Coding in Flow

In this video we will learn, how to create a floating context menu, which will appear when we long click on a particular view or item.
For this we will create a menu xml file, override onCreateContextMenu to inflate this menu, use the registerForContextMenu method to set it on a TextView and finally handle clicks by overriding onContextItemSelected and check for the ID of the clicked item.
Lastly we will learn, how to add a header title to our floating context menu by using the setHeaderTitle method.

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activity_main.xmlexample_menu.xmlMainActivity.java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.codinginflow.floatingcontextmenuexample.MainActivity">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hello World!"
        android:textSize="30sp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/option_1"
        android:title="Option 1" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/option_2"
        android:title="Option 2" />

</menu>

package com.codinginflow.floatingcontextmenuexample;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.ContextMenu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        TextView textView = findViewById(R.id.text_view);

        registerForContextMenu(textView);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
        menu.setHeaderTitle("Choose your option");
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.example_menu, menu);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.option_1:
                Toast.makeText(this, "Option 1 selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                return true;
            case R.id.option_2:
                Toast.makeText(this, "Option 2 selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                return true;
            default:
                return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
        }


    }
}