How to override web view text selection menu in android

Question

The basic android's web text selection menu is as shown in image attached below. It has options like copy, share, select all, web search.

I want to over ride this menus and want them as my own menu list like "mark colour", "mark as imp" etc. I look around most of the questions available about context menu on stack overflow. The most of the question relate with context menu but not giving result as expected. I want menu like below image

When I perform selection android monitor shows some view creation form viewRoot like

D/ViewRootImpl: #1 mView = android.widget.PopupWindow$PopupDecorView{648898f V.E...... ......I. 0,0-0,0}
D/ViewRootImpl: #1 mView = android.widget.PopupWindow$PopupDecorView{a66541c V.E...... ......I. 0,0-0,0}
D/ViewRootImpl: MSG_RESIZED_REPORT: ci=Rect(0, 0 - 0, 0) vi=Rect(0, 0 - 0, 0) or=1
D/ViewRootImpl: MSG_RESIZED_REPORT: ci=Rect(0, 0 - 0, 0) vi=Rect(0, 0 - 0, 0) or=1

How to achieve such implementation?

I also gone through https://github.com/naoak/WebViewMarker but not getting proper result.

What I have done yet?

I extend WebView of android and I want to make support for minimum SDK 19. When I perform long press I got long press event but I can't get such menus creation api calls.

Answer 1

You need to overwrite action menus of activity

more info you can read :https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html

HOW TO OVERWRITE:

@Override
public void onActionModeStarted(android.view.ActionMode mode) {
    mode.getMenu().clear();
    Menu menus = mode.getMenu();
    mode.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.highlight,menus);
    super.onActionModeStarted(mode);
}

highlight

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/impclick"
        android:title="Mark As Important"
      />
    <item android:id="@+id/colorclick"
        android:title="Mark with color" />
</menu>