We know that contextual action mode is introduced in Android 3.0 ( Honeycomb ) and is not available in the pre Honeycomb versions of Android. But we can mimic a contextual action mode using Sherlock library. In this article we will develop a demo application containing contextual action mode for Android 2.x and above...
We know the very famous quote “Do not reinvent the wheel”. This is really apt for Android applications. Because Android facilitates an application to integrate existing activities available in the system effortlessly. There are numerous methods to integrate system activities to an application. One method is to dynamically add required activities to the application’s...
The contextual menu bar (contextual action mode) is introduced in Android 3.0 ( HoneyComb ). A contextual menu bar is a horizontal bar displayed at the top of an activity and can contain various menu item actions. In the article titled “Creating a contextual menu bar ( contextual action mode ) for a single...
Beginning with Android 3.0, a new UI feature is introduced which is called contextual action mode. In this mode, a contextual menu will be displayed at the top of the screen in a horizontal bar with a set of menu actions. These menu actions can be acted on a single view of an activity...
In this article we will see how to create a floating contextual menu in an Android application.In the main activity, a list of country names will be listed in listview. On long pressing an item, the contextual menu will be appeared. There will be three menu items in the context menu such as “Edit”,...