Question

Consider an Android ListView with a context menu set up with registerForContextMenu. The context menu of a ListView item is shown when the user long taps over the item view.

Additionally, I would like to show the context menu when the user taps (not long taps) on the item (if certain conditions are met). Is it possible to do this? How?

Answer 1

I managed to solve this by browsing the Android source code. Here’s what I did:

protected void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, int position) {
    final int start = adapterView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
    final int index = position - start;
    final View childView = adapterView.getChildAt(index);
    if (childView != null) {
        adapterView.showContextMenuForChild(childView);
    }
}