Question

I have created a widget in my application , now when a widget is clicked I want to show few options in a context menu and allow the user to choose one of them.

My widget contains icon and text , so when a user click over an icon of widget i want to show the context menu.

is there a way to do it ? i am using android 2.3.X and android support compatibility package too.

here is what i want

The widget that i have created is derived from AppWidgetProvider class.

Answer 1

I think there is no way to open a context menu when we click on widget.

But alternatively we can open an activity instead and make it transparent then open a dialog box which contains ListView in that way we can mimic the look of context menu.

That is how i eventually did in my application.