Furthermore, you might not want to do anything if the user tries to bring up a context menu on a group item. There might be cases where you would want to do something to all of the children under a group, but in my Librarium application, I wanted to ignore group items and present the context menu only for children.

First, you need to know when the context menu is going to be created so that you can identify whether the user pressed on a group or a child. If they pressed on a group, then cancel the context menu. This also gives us a chance to get the text of the child item, so that we can put it into the header of the context menu.

public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {

super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);

ExpandableListView.ExpandableListContextMenuInfo info =

(ExpandableListView.ExpandableListContextMenuInfo) menuInfo;

int type =

ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionType(info.packedPosition);

int group =

ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionGroup(info.packedPosition);

int child =

ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionChild(info.packedPosition);

//Only create a context menu for child items

if (type == 1) {

//Array created earlier when we built the expandable list

String page =mListStringArray[group][child];

menu.setHeaderTitle(page);

menu.add(0, MENU_READ, 0, “Read page”);

menu.add(0, MENU_EDIT, 0, “Edit page”);

menu.add(0, MENU_FAVORITE, 0, “Add page to favorites”);

menu.add(0, MENU_EXPORT, 0, “Export page to file”);

menu.add(0, MENU_DELETE, 1, “Delete page”);

}

}

Second, create the context menu:

public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem menuItem) {

ExpandableListContextMenuInfo info =

(ExpandableListContextMenuInfo) menuItem.getMenuInfo();

int groupPos = 0, childPos = 0;

int type = ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionType(info.packedPosition);

if (type == ExpandableListView.PACKED_POSITION_TYPE_CHILD) {

groupPos = ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionGroup(info.packedPosition);

childPos = ExpandableListView.getPackedPositionChild(info.packedPosition);

}

//Pull values from the array we built when we created the list

String author = mListStringArray[groupPos][0];

String page = mListStringArray[groupPos][childPos * 3 + 1];

rowId = Integer.parseInt(mListStringArray[groupPos][childPos * 3 + 3]);

switch (menuItem.getItemId()) {

case MENU_READ:

readNote(rowId);

return true;

case MENU_EDIT:

editNote(rowId);

return true;

//etc….

default:

return super.onContextItemSelected(menuItem);

}

}

That’s it. Now users can long-press on an item in an expandable list, and get the context menu if it’s a child item.