Creating a context menu on the click of an element inside a listview item

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Clicking the more icon (3 vertical dots anchored to the right of the list item) opens up a context menu in Google Music:

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I'm trying to recreate this with what I'm guessing is a context menu. Documentation says:

If your activity uses a ListView or GridView and you want each item to provide the same context menu, register all items for a context menu by passing the ListView or GridView to registerForContextMenu().

But I still want the list item itself clickable. I just want a context menu to show up when the user clicks on the more icon like it does in Google Music.

So I tried this:

@Override
public void onMoreClicked(ArtistsListItem item, int position, View imageButton) {       
     registerForContextMenu(imageButton);
}

onMoreClicked is just part of a custom listener I made to receive onClick callbacks from the list's adapter.

registerForContextMenu is called, but the fragment's onCreateContextMenu method is never invoked:

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View view, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo info) { //this method is never called
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, view, info);

    android.view.MenuInflater inflater = mActivity.getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.artist_list_menu, menu);
}

I ran some breakpoints to check if it was running but it never did. I did the same with the activity's onCreateContextMenu (the registerForContextMenu's class is the fragment, but just to be sure I did it that way) and no dice either.

I'm using ActionBarSherlock, I don't know if that makes a difference but I guess it's worth noting.

Does anyone have an idea what is going on here?

I think Google Music doesn't use a contextual menu, it looks like it, but it might be a FragmentDialog, because of the way it animates. But I'm not 100% sure and I haven't taken a look at your code yet. — Martin Marconcini, Oct 25 '13 at 00:44
Hmmm looks ok, but it may be a problem with the list (and the buttons) fighting for the Focus? Have you tried adding android:focusable="false" to the buttons? — Martin Marconcini, Oct 25 '13 at 00:49

nana · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-25T22:16:57.040

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I had a similar issue, this is what I ended up doing:
In the listAdapter.getItem I attach a listener to each sub view:

private Fragment mParentFragment;

public FriendListAdapter(Fragment fragment, ...) {
    . . .
    this.mParentFragment = fragment;
}
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    if( convertView == null ){
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(mContext).inflate(R.layout.friend_layout, parent, false);
    }
    ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) convertView;
    assert viewGroup != null;

    *
    *
    *

    Button viewMessageButton = (Button) viewGroup.findViewById(R.id.b_send_message);
    viewMessageButton.setTag(friend.getHandle());
    viewMessageButton.setOnClickListener(mParentFragment);
    return viewGroup;
}

and in the Fragment I just listen to onClick events:

public class FriendListFragment extends Fragment implements View.OnClickListener {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        dialog.show(getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager(), SEND_MESSAGE_DIALOG);
    }
}

Or you can use PopupMenu from support v7 Which you can install in Android studio without gradle from Project Structure window.

Choose Modules on the left, then Import Library navigate to ..../android-studio/sdk/extras/android/support/v7/appcompat then in you main project module add appcompat as a module dependency.

edited Oct 25 '13 at 22:16

answered Oct 25 '13 at 00:47

nana

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You ended up doing nothing? – Martin Marconcini Oct 25 '13 at 00:49
Accidentally posted too early ;) – nana Oct 25 '13 at 00:58
I'm assuming your solution works, but I'm also 99% sure that it's not really needed, a ListView can be clickable and can contain other views which can display contextual menus. :-) – Martin Marconcini Oct 25 '13 at 00:59
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Yes, I'm pretty sure you can do -> public void onListItemClick(ListView lv, View v, int position, long id){ lv.showContextMenuForChild(v); } – Martin Marconcini Oct 25 '13 at 01:04
You are absolutely correct. EDIT: Oops, I deleted my last comment, sorry. I guess this one will go too. – nana Oct 25 '13 at 01:04
hahahah no problem. Relevant info I just found: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3722380/2684 – Martin Marconcini Oct 25 '13 at 01:06

Creating a context menu on the click of an element inside a listview item

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