How to create context menu for RecyclerView

Question

How do I implement context menu for RecyclerView? Apparently calling registerForContextMenu(recyclerView) doesn't work. I'm calling it from a fragment. Did anybody have any success implementing this?

Answer 1

Thanks for the info and comments. I was able to achieve ContextMenu for items in Recyclerview.

Here is what I did

in Fragment's onViewCreated method or Activity's onCreate method:

registerForContextMenu(mRecyclerView); 

Then in Adapter add

private int position;  public int getPosition() {     return position; }  public void setPosition(int position) {     this.position = position; } 

make the ViewHolder class implement OnCreateContextMenuListener

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder          implements View.OnCreateContextMenuListener {      public ImageView icon;      public TextView fileName;     public ImageButton menuButton;       public ViewHolder(View v) {         super(v);         icon = (ImageView)v.findViewById(R.id.file_icon);         fileName = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.file_name);         menuButton = (ImageButton)v.findViewById(R.id.menu_button);         v.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(this);     }      @Override     public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,          ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {         //menuInfo is null         menu.add(Menu.NONE, R.id.ctx_menu_remove_backup,              Menu.NONE, R.string.remove_backup);         menu.add(Menu.NONE, R.id.ctx_menu_restore_backup,             Menu.NONE, R.string.restore_backup);     } } 

onBindViewHolder method add OnLongClickListener on the holder.itemView to capture the position before the context menu is loaded:

holder.itemView.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {     @Override     public boolean onLongClick(View v) {         setPosition(holder.getPosition());         return false;     } }); 

Then in onViewRecycled remove the Listener so that there are no reference issues. (may not be required).

@Override public void onViewRecycled(ViewHolder holder) {     holder.itemView.setOnLongClickListener(null);     super.onViewRecycled(holder); } 

Finally in the Fragment/Activity override the onContextItemSelected as under:

@Override public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {     int position = -1;     try {         position = ((BackupRestoreListAdapter)getAdapter()).getPosition();     } catch (Exception e) {         Log.d(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);         return super.onContextItemSelected(item);     }     switch (item.getItemId()) {         case R.id.ctx_menu_remove_backup:             // do your stuff             break;         case R.id.ctx_menu_restore_backup:             // do your stuff             break;     }     return super.onContextItemSelected(item); }