Edittext That Make Selection On Long Click But Do Not Show Context Menu?

i want to provide custom handlers that cut,copy text. Target on Longclick Context Menu Should not appear. Text could get selected with trackers ( or Draggers ). [UPDATE] protec

Solution 1:

you want to get rid of the ActionMode? and create your own??

you can override this and get notified when the default is about to be displayed

@OverridepublicvoidonSupportActionModeStarted(ActionMode mode) {     
    super.onSupportActionModeStarted(mode);
    //you can add your custom ui here
    mode.setCustomView(....);// it takes a view
}

if you want to close it then you call mode.finish(); you can call it there to close if or finish it if you do not need it.

when it is about to die it calls this onSupportActionModeFinished(ActionMode mode)` the methods i have stated are for the support libraries, hope you know that.

The rest is cheese

Solution 2:

Finally I have sorted this out. This solution perfectly works for me. First of all, you need to create the context menu background as follows

menuback.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><selectorxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><item><shapeandroid:shape="rectangle"><solidandroid:color="@android:color/transparent"/></shape></item></selector>

Then Create your Custom Menu as follows

mymenu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><menuxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><itemandroid:id="@+id/m"android:title=" " ></item></menu>

Now add the following lines on your

styles.xml

<resources><!-- Base application theme. --><stylename="AppTheme"parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"><!-- Customize your theme here. --><itemname="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item><itemname="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item><itemname="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item><itemname="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item><itemname="actionModeBackground">@drawable/menuback</item><itemname="actionBarSize">1dp</item><itemname="android:actionModeCloseDrawable">@android:color/transparent</item></style></resources>

And Finally set elevation of the actionbar to 0 and implement the ActionMode.CallBack as follows

EditText editText=findViewById(R.id.ed);

    getSupportActionBar().setElevation(0);
    editText.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(newActionMode.Callback() {
        @OverridepublicbooleanonCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
            mode.getMenu().clear();
            MenuInflater inflater=mode.getMenuInflater();
            inflater.inflate(R.menu.mymenu,menu);
            returntrue;
        }

        @OverridepublicbooleanonPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
            returnfalse;
        }

        @OverridepublicbooleanonActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {
            returnfalse;
        }

        @OverridepublicvoidonDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {

        }
    });

Ta...da... Here is the Final Result