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
According to https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus#CAB you need to create menu in onCreateActionMode.
I made it like this (in kotlin):
val actionModeCallbackA = object : ActionMode.Callback {
override fun onActionItemClicked(mode: ActionMode?, p1: MenuItem?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onActionItemClicked")
actionModeB = startActionMode(actionModeCallbackB)
return true
}
override fun onCreateActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onCreateActionMode")
val inflater = mode?.getMenuInflater()
inflater?.inflate(R.menu.context_menu, menu)
return true
}
override fun onPrepareActionMode(p0: ActionMode?, p1: Menu?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onPrepareActionMode")
return false
}
override fun onDestroyActionMode(p0: ActionMode?) {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onDestroyActionMode")
actionModeA = null
}
}
Just some thoughts. What if you take menu item onCreateOptionsMenu
and change it.
Like this:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
new Handler().post( -> {
final View menuItemView = findViewById(R.id.menu_action_item);
...
}
}
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 = "<!DOCTYPE html>\n" +
"<html>\n" +
"<head>\n" +
"</head>\n" +
"<body>\n" +
"\n" +
"<h1>WebView text</h1>\n" +
"\n" +
"</body>\n" +
"</html>\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:
<item android:id="@+id/id1"
android:title="miui"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="@+id/id2"
android:title="has"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="@+id/id3"
android:title="bugs"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
<item android:id="@+id/id4"
android:title="D:"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom" />
Result:
I had similar problem, maybe my solution would help someone. I had to make a view composed of several horizontal neighboring EditText
's, and add ability to paste text to them (one letter of text to one editText)
I used ActionMode.Callback
's approach and it was working fine, except Xiaomi devices. The solution for Xiaomi devices was using OnLongClickListener
on edit texts and create PopupMenu
on long click:
editText.setOnLongClickListener(v -> {
PopupMenu menu = new PopupMenu(context,v);
MenuInflater inflater = menu.getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.paste_menu_item, menu.getMenu());
menu.setOnMenuItemClickListener(item -> {
pasteText();//some custom function to handle selected action
return false;
});
menu.show();
return true;
});