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 ri

Answer 1

This solution is not depend on Action mode of Activity and work for all android platform

I tried to give answer but it exceeds the character limits so I am putting some code part

Reference Link 1 For Selection On Web View

https://github.com/btate/BTAndroidWebViewSelection

Reference Link 2 For Making Web View Marker

https://github.com/liufsd/WebViewMarker

Both above links really plays important role and developed by some awesome developers. First Of All Need Some Research On TextSelectionSupport Class From Reference Link 1. I customised two lines of code in TextSelectionSupport class to get rectangle of selection in Selection Listener here.

Clone the Sample Project from here https://github.com/ab-cse-2014/WebViewSelection.git

See The implementation of CustomWebView and Use Of TextSelectionSupport class.

This is my web view class in project

 import android.content.Context;
 import android.graphics.Rect;
 import android.os.Build;
 import android.support.annotation.RequiresApi;
 import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
 import android.util.AttributeSet;
 import android.util.Log;
 import android.view.Gravity;
 import android.view.LayoutInflater;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.webkit.WebView;
 import android.widget.PopupWindow;
 import android.widget.Toast;

 import com.cse.webviewtextselection.R;
 import com.cse.webviewtextselection.webviewmaker.TextSelectionSupport;

 public class CustomWebView extends WebView {

private final String TAG = this.getClass().getSimpleName();

private Context mContext;

private TextSelectionSupport mTextSelectionSupport;

private PopupWindow mPopupWindow;

private int currentTop;

public CustomWebView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    mContext = context;
    initSetUp();
    preparePopupWindow();
}

public CustomWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    mContext = context;
    initSetUp();
    preparePopupWindow();
}

public CustomWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    mContext = context;
    initSetUp();
    preparePopupWindow();
}

@RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
public CustomWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
    mContext = context;
    initSetUp();
    preparePopupWindow();
}

private void initSetUp() {

    mTextSelectionSupport = TextSelectionSupport.support((AppCompatActivity) mContext, this);
    mTextSelectionSupport.setSelectionListener(new TextSelectionSupport.SelectionListener() {
        @Override
        public void startSelection() {

        }

        @Override
        public void selectionChanged(String text, Rect rect) {
            Toast.makeText(mContext, text, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            showPopAtLocation(mPopupWindow, rect.left, rect.top);
        }

        @Override
        public void endSelection() {
            if (mPopupWindow != null) {
                mPopupWindow.dismiss();
            }
        }
    });
}

private void preparePopupWindow() {

    LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View customPopupView =  layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_popup_layout, null);
    mPopupWindow = new PopupWindow(customPopupView, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, true);
    mPopupWindow.setAnimationStyle(android.R.style.Animation_Dialog);

}

private void showPopAtLocation(PopupWindow mPopupWindow, int x, int y) {

    if (mPopupWindow != null) {

        if (currentTop != 0 || currentTop > ((AppCompatActivity)mContext).getWindow().getDecorView().getHeight()) {

                if (y > currentTop) {

                    y -= currentTop;

                }

        }

        Log.d("Current Top : ", String.valueOf(currentTop));
        Log.d("Y : ", String.valueOf(y));

        //mPopupWindow.showAtLocation(((AppCompatActivity)mContext).findViewById(R.id.parentRelativeLayout), Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, x, y);
        mPopupWindow.showAtLocation(((AppCompatActivity)mContext).getWindow().getDecorView(), Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, x, y);


    }

}

@Override
protected void onScrollChanged(int newLeft, int newTop, int oldLeft, int oldTop) {

    currentTop = newTop;


    super.onScrollChanged(newLeft, newTop, oldLeft, oldTop);
}
 }

Custom Popup Menu XML like androids smart text selection(custom_popup_layout.xml)

Output Screen Shots