Android opening context menu after button click

Question

I want to open context menu when I click a button, but also I have to know which list item is focused when I click the button. Do you know how to do that? What code should b

Answer 1

If you really want to do it for whatever reason... (in my case, out of laziness)

During onCreate of your activity or somewhere before your user can touch the button, do registerForContextMenuon that button. Then in the actual button onClick handler, call openContextMenu(View).

For example, I have a button declared in xml like

in my onCreate

registerForContextMenu(findViewById(R.id.btn_help));

and in onHelp function

public void onHelp(View v) {
    openContextMenu(v);
}

this works because the View v is the same as the view registered for context menu.