Contextual Action Bar

The contextual action bar (CAB) is a temporary action bar that overlays your app's current action bar while data is selected. It appears after the user long-presses on a selectable data item.

From here the user can:

• Select additional data items by touching them.
• Trigger an action from the CAB that applies to all highlighted data items. The CAB then automatically dismisses itself.
• Dismiss the CAB via the navigation bar's Back button or the CAB's checkmark button. This removes the CAB along with all selection highlights.

Create new menu item xml inside our res/menu/  folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item

        android:id="@+id/item_delete"

        android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_delete"

        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"

        android:title="Delete"

        android:titleCondensed="Delete">

    </item>

</menu>

Write a code to start action mode in any event

For example:

listView.setMultiChoiceModeListener(new MultiChoiceModeListener() {

 @Override

public void onItemCheckedStateChanged(ActionMode mode,

int position, long id, boolean checked) {

// Capture total checked items

 final int checkedCount = listView.getCheckedItemCount();

// Set the CAB title according to total checked items

mode.setTitle(checkedCount + " Selected");

// Calls toggleSelection method from ListViewAdapter Class

adapter.toggleSelection(position);

}

 

@Override

public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {

 switch (item.getItemId()) {

case R.id.item_delete:

// Calls getSelectedIds method from ListViewAdapter Class

SparseBooleanArray selected = adapter.getSelectedIds();

// Captures all selected ids with a loop

for (int i = (selected.size() - 1); i >= 0; i--) {

if (selected.valueAt(i)) {

Model selecteditem = adapter.getItem(selected.keyAt(i));

// Remove selected items following the ids

adapter.remove(selecteditem);

}

   }

   // Close CAB

  mode.finish();

  return true;

  default:

  return false;

}

}

  @Override

  public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {

mode.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.contextual_menu, menu);

return true;

}

 

@Override

public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

adapter.removeSelection();

}

  @Override

public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

return false;

}

});

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