Android Context menu from listsview

Question

I am new to android development, and not very good at programming in general but, I am working on a tab layout that has a listview per tab. Each tab has it's own java file. I am currently trying to add a context menu that when clicked (not long clicked) on an item in my listview, will bring up a menu so I can choose an option. Right now it just shows a toast displaying the name of the item I clicked. The listview options are currently added to the list via local string declaration, here is an example of on of my tabs:

public class AlbumTab extends ListActivity
{
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {
      final String[] CDExplorer_tabs = new String[] {"Client Heirarchy", "Territory", "Sales Credit", "Admin", "General Search"};
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

      setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.list_item, CDExplorer_tabs));

      ListView lv = getListView();
      lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

      lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() 
      {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
            int position, long id) 
        {

          Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ((TextView) view).getText(),
              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
      });
    }

would I have to make another string array for each menu I want to popup and somehow connect it to the other string? Or do if statements that decide on which menu to popup based on which listview item is clicked?

Answer 1

First, you if you want each part of the list to have a different menu, make a switch statement in your onItemClick() that depends on your position. switch(position){ //cases and such

Then what you might want to try instead of having a nested ListView is try doing an AlertDialog. Search for adding a list. And then implementing that for each position on your list. Then make sure that you implement another switch inside of the DialogInterface onClick function to call a function to do what you what it to do from the list.//Also make sure to alert.show();.

That would be my recommendation if you want to do it. However, if you want to do nested listviews, its more complicated but possible.

What you need to is implement a custom list adapter for you list. And create a view holder for each that holds a another listview. A good example for that is here.

That should pretty much do it. Mind you that if you decide to do the nested listviews it will be very crowded inside that listview.