Question

I know this might sounds not reasonable, and might be a bad design.
But I want to know is there any way that I can programmatically highlight one of the UIMenuitem when a UIMenuController pop-up?

i.e. Just like the state when I ‘press down’ that item but before ‘press up’, it will have a blue background indicate what I pressed.

Just like I can use following code for UIButton

[myBtn setHighlighted:YES];

Answer 1

There is certainly no easy / app store safe way, UIMenuItems are not even UIView subclasses, so you cannot subclass and implement your own drawing code.