Disable EditText context menu

Question

I am making a vertical EditText for traditional Mongolian. I have successfully implemented it by embedding a slightly modified EditText inside of a rotated ViewGroup. I need to create a completely custom context menu because the system one does not support vertical text and is also not rotated when the ViewGroup is rotated. So I want to disable the system context menu altogether.

Note that this is different than these questions that are just trying to disable copy/paste/etc.:

• How to disable copy/paste from/to EditText
• EditText: Disable Paste/Replace menu pop-up on Text Selection Handler click event
• how to disable paste option in android EditText
• Android: How to TOTALLY disable copy and paste function in Edittext

Although I don't get the context menu appearing in the simulator, I get it appearing in my Android 5.0.2 Xiaomi phone.

I have tried:

• the setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback "solution"
• the setLongClickable(false); "solution"
• the onTouchEvent "solution"

I'm open to hacks but I need it to consistently work across devices. Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote some time back in reply to another user trying to do something similar:

I suspect that even if you come up with an answer, it will not work across devices. Device manufacturers have had a tendency to roll their own "context menu" for EditText, defeating developers' attempts to add items into that context menu. My guess is that trying to block that context menu will have similar results.

Am I out of luck?

The only thing I can think of now is to completely rewrite TextView and EditText from scratch (well, by modifying the Android source). I know someone else who did something similar, but his code isn't open source. Before I take this major step, I want to try asking for a simpler solution here on Stack Overflow.

Update: I've been trying modify the TextView source code for the past two days and it looks like a 6 month project. It is a mass of interrelated classes. I need another solution, but I am out of ideas.

MVCE

This is the simplest way I could think of to recreate the problem. There is nothing necessary from my custom EditText. The layout has a single EditText made by replacing the default project Hello World's TextView. I changed the min API to 11 to avoid dealing with deprecated methods.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {      @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);          EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_text);         editText.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new ActionMode.Callback() {             @Override             public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) { return false; }             @Override             public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) { return false; }             @Override             public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode actionMode, MenuItem menuItem) { return false; }             @Override             public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode actionMode) { }         });     } } 

The context menu in the simulator (running API 24) still shows when I click on the cursor handle (but not on a long click or double click). Here is an image:

On my Xiaomi MIUI phone running Android 5.0, I get the context menu in all situations (cursor handle click, long click, double click).

Update

Aritra Roy's solution is working in the simulator, on some other devices that he has tested, and on my device. I have accepted his answer because it solves my original problem. The only negative side effect is that text selection is also disabled.

Answer 1

the solution is very simple

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  EditText et_0;  @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);     setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);      et_0 = findViewById(R.id.et_0);      et_0.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new ActionMode.Callback() {         @Override         public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {             //to keep the text selection capability available ( selection cursor)             return true;         }          @Override         public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {             //to prevent the menu from appearing             menu.clear();             return false;         }          @Override         public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {             return false;         }          @Override         public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {          }     });    } } 

Answer 2

I have made this code for EditText, and it worked fine for such an issue.

try {     edtName.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {         @Override         public void onClick(View v) {             edtName.setSelection(0);         }     });     edtName.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {         @Override         public boolean onLongClick(View v) {             return true;         }     });     edtName.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new ActionMode.Callback() {         @Override         public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) { return false; }         @Override         public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) { return false; }         @Override         public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode actionMode, MenuItem menuItem) { return false; }         @Override         public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode actionMode) { }     }); } catch (Exception e) {     e.printStackTrace(); }