Devices with Android + MIUI and setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback

Question

I\'m trying to create custom selection menu but it does not work on a device with rom MIUI and Android 6. The result is common menu with copy and select all

Answer 1

So I figured out a workaround, but it makes sense only if you absolutely need it to work on MIUI devices. It's generally a little awkward:

I noticed that the Wikipedia app has custom actions working on a Xiaomi device, and after looking through the code I found out it works fine when the texts is selected in a WebView. You can basically use a WebView and override onActionModeStarted in your Activity

Acivity:

String html = "\n" +
        "\n" +
        "\n" +
        "\n" +
        "\n" +
        "\n" +
        "
WebView text
\n" +
        "\n" +
        "\n" +
        "\n";

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

    WebView webView = findViewById(R.id.web_view);
    webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    webView.loadData(html, "text/html", "UTF-8");
}

@Override
public void onActionModeStarted(ActionMode mode) {
    super.onActionModeStarted(mode);
        Menu menu = mode.getMenu();
        menu.clear();
        mode.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_text_select, menu);
}

Menu:

Result: