Get Position of ContextMenu Selected in RecycleView

Question

Normally for ListViews, I would do this when I wanted to get the position that the user clicked on a Context Menu.

public boolean onContextItemSelected(android.view.MenuItem item) {

    AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo();
    position = info.position;

However, ever since I switched to a RecycleView, I now get a null pointer here.

The code above is in my main Activity (Fragment) while onCreateContextMenu() is done in the adapter as per the new way.

ItemView.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(this); is also done in the adapter (specifically the constructor).

Answer 1

There're 3 options:

1. You can pass getAdapterPosition() instead of MenuItem's order

   private class ChipViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnCreateContextMenuListener {
       public ChipViewHolder(View itemView) {
           super(itemView);
           itemView.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(this);
       }
   
       @Override
       public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
           menu.setHeaderTitle("Select The Action");
           menu.add(0, ACTION_1_ID, getAdapterPosition(), "action 1");
           menu.add(0, ACTION_2_ID, getAdapterPosition(), "action 2");
       }
   }
   

   And then, in Activity listen to onContextItemSelected() and retrieve position by getOrder()

   @Override
   public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
       int clickedItemPosition = item.getOrder();
       // do something!
       return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
   }
   

2. Use custom implementations of RecyclerView like Teovald/ContextMenuRecyclerView one

3. Setting MenuItem's clickListener (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/33179957/1658267 ) and handles it there.

Yes, it's very inconvenient API. You can choose the one you like most.