Android - Popup menu when list item view pressed?

Question

i would like to implement a popup menu similar to google's play store as shown below.

so basically from what i understand, i'll need an activity and a layout for this activity with a listview defined in it. i need to create my custom adapter. also, i need to create a list layout would contain the information and a view (with the 3 dots) that will serve as the button to launch the popup menu? the issue that i'm seeing here is that how do i create a listener for this view only and how do i reference the value for that specific list item in the list view.

i don't have any code available yet as i haven't started anything related to this. i'm currently getting info in theory for now but if required i will create a sample code.

thanks.

Answer 1

Using popup menu it's quite simple to create a menu with these three steps:

1 - Add a click listener to the menu button using OnClickListener or as i prefer from the layout xml:

<ImageButton android:id="@+id/menu_button" android:onClick="showMenu" ... />

2 - Create the menu layout menu_layout.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/item_settings"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="Settings"
        android:visible="true"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/item_about"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="About"
        android:visible="true"/>
</menu>

3 - Create a popup menu, inflate the xml layout and show it:

public void showMenu (View view)
{
    PopupMenu menu = new PopupMenu (this, view);
    menu.setOnMenuItemClickListener (new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener ()
    {
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemClick (MenuItem item)
        {
            int id = item.getItemId();
            switch (id)
            {
                case R.id.item_settings: Log.i (Tag, "settings"); break;
                case R.id.item_about: Log.i (Tag, "about"); break;
            }
            return true;
        }
    });
    menu.inflate (R.menu.menu_layout);
    menu.show();
}

Answer 2

ActionBarCompat List PopupMenu implementation is here (with back port available because it uses ABC)!

You can also get this sample from Github or from SDK (Mr.Morgan commented below)

/sdk/samples/android-19/ui/ActionBarCompat-ListPopupMenu. Make sure to install Samples for SDK under Android 4.4.2 (API 19)