Question

I am looking for a way to open a ContextMenu “under” an item in a ListView.
An example of this implementation can be found in the “reddit is fun” android app. I have attached a screen shot for your reference.

I have been trying to achieve this for quite a long time but have been unsuccessful. How can I achieve this functionality?

I think it is a very nice way of showing a context menu and I’d like to use this technique too!

Answer 1

That menu could be implemented directly in the row layout. You’ll have to add to your current layout the extra menu layout(and hide it at first, you probably don’t want to show it when the user first works with the ListView). All you have to then is to add the logic to show/hide the menu and also keep track of what is happening with the menu itself(in a custom adapter) and the items in it(like it the menu is open/ closed, the status of the items in it). You can find a simple sample about how to do this here: https://gist.github.com/3722950 .