How to add a share button to the text selection bar for an EditText?

Question

I notice that when highlighting text in a WebView a share button appears along with the standard copy and select all buttons:

WebView text selected

but when highlighting text in a TextView or EditText, there is no such button.

EditText text selected

Is there any way to add such a button via XML or can it be done programmatically?

Could you please provide an image shows the problem? – Mar 22 '14 at 02:32 — , Mar 22 '14 at 02:32

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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You can achieve that by setting a custom selection action mode using

TextView.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(ActionMode.Callback)

and so the EditText

Here's a similar question with that was answered with an example

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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