Context Menu for Image Saving in an Android webview

Question

I\'ve poured over similar questions but can\'t find the answer. I want to be able to long press the user-uploaded images in my webview to save them (like you can in a brows

Answer 1

First register the WebView for context menus like so: activity.registerForContextMenu(webView)

@Override
protected void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu) {
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu);

    HitTestResult result = getHitTestResult();

    MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener handler = new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
                // do the menu action
                return true;
        }
    };

    if (result.getType() == HitTestResult.IMAGE_TYPE ||
            result.getType() == HitTestResult.SRC_IMAGE_ANCHOR_TYPE) {

        menu.setHeaderTitle(result.getExtra());
        menu.add(0, ID_SAVEIMAGE, 0, "Save Image").setOnMenuItemClickListener(handler);
    }

To save you images simply use this