creating a menu after a long click event on a list view

Question

I have a list view connected to a database, showing a all the entries. I want a menu to show up if the user long clicks a item in the listview(database entry), showing options to edit or delete the entry. how can i do this.

Till now, I have tried using a onItemLongClick listener and a toast in it showing the id of the view long clicked.

@Override public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,         int position, long id) {      String res = Long.toString(id);      Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, res, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);      toast.show();      return true; } 

Answer 1

First you need to register your context menu on list view.

lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list_view); registerForContextMenu(lv); 

Then, just override activity methods.

/**  * MENU  */  @Override public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {       super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);       if (v.getId()==R.id.list_view) {           MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();           inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_list, menu);       } }  @Override public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {       AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo();       switch(item.getItemId()) {          case R.id.add:          // add stuff here             return true;           case R.id.edit:             // edit stuff here                 return true;           case R.id.delete:         // remove stuff here                 return true;           default:                 return super.onContextItemSelected(item);       } } 

Here is an example of menu_list.xml file (you have to put the file in the res/menu folder).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">         <item android:id="@+id/add"               android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_add"               android:title="@string/menu_add" />        <item android:id="@+id/edit"               android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_edit"               android:title="@string/menu_edit" />         <item android:id="@+id/delete"             android:icon="@android:drawable/my_icon_delete"              android:title="@string/menu_delete" />  </menu> 

Hope it will help.