Opening a floating menu (context menu) in Android?

Question

I created a new menu, named drmenu.xml. It works correctly when i press menu button, but I need to open a context menu when the user press the button. The below code the button just show a toast.

this is my xml layout:

 <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/MenuCall"
        android:layout_width="90dip"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="right|center_vertical" >
        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/MenuCall"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/imageiew6" />
    </LinearLayout>

and this is my java code:

    final LinearLayout callback_var = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.MenuCall);
    registerForContextMenu(callback_var);
    callback_var.setOnClickListener(new android.view.View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "this is repeated",      Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            openContextMenu(callback_var);
        }

Answer 1

If you want create a context Menu, you have to call the method registerForContextMenu() passing it the View that should be associated with the context menu.

For example, supposing to associate the context menu with a Button:

Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button);
registerForContextMenu(button);

which can be called in the onCreate() of your Activity. Then, inside the same activity, you need to override the onCreateContextMenu() method.

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.your_context_menu, menu);
}

Then you have to implement onContextItemSelected(), for triggering the proper action when a item inside the context menu is pressed:

@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.first_action:
            // your first action code
            return true;
        case R.id.second_action:
            // your second action code
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
    }
}

Now the long press click on the button opens the context menu you defined in the your_context_menu.xml file.

Consider that opening the context menu with a long press is compliant with the Android standard UI, however If you want your context menu to appear on a simple tap you can look here the answer

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