React Native | add option to Text context menu

Question

I am working on a react-native app with version 0.51. in one view I want to add a new option to text selection context-menu.

I didn't find any property in the Text component of react-native to do this.

after many hours of googling I found this solution for android by adding the following in AndroidManifest.xml

<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
</intent-filter>

this added a new option with name of my application "Book App"

but I don't feel it the best solution because :

1- I need to do it with react not in the android platform code to behave the same on android and iOS
2- I don't know how to change the name of the option.
3- I don't know how to trigger specific action when click this option.

any other solution for adding new option in the context-menu of the Text component?

Answer 1

We had the same problem when this app we were developing at my company and the only solution was to implement it natively, we've just open-sourced it https://github.com/Astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text

import { SelectableText } from 'react-native-selectable-text';

// Use normally, it is a drop-in replacement for react-native/Text
<SelectableText
  menuItems={['Foo', 'Bar']}
  /* Called when the user taps in a item of the selection menu, eventType is the label and content the selected text portion */
  onSelection={({ eventType, content }) => {}}
  /* iOS only (RGB) */
  highlightColor={[255, 0, 0]}
>
  I crave star damage
</SelectableText>