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Van Cong Minh
Van Cong Minh

Reputation: 21

How to trigger contextual action bar (CAB) in Android without long-click event in order to select multiple items from ListView in Android

I've just learned how to create listview but do not know how to select multiple items without long-click on any item. I want trigger CAB after pressing button "Select" from action bar and then delete selected items. Here are the code with long-click event from developer.android.com: 

ListView listView = getListView();
listView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE_MODAL);
listView.setMultiChoiceModeListener(new MultiChoiceModeListener() {

    @Override
    public void onItemCheckedStateChanged(ActionMode mode, int position,
                                          long id, boolean checked) {
        // Here you can do something when items are selected/de-selected,
        // such as update the title in the CAB
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {
        // Respond to clicks on the actions in the CAB
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case R.id.menu_delete:
                deleteSelectedItems();
                mode.finish(); // Action picked, so close the CAB
                return true;
            default:
                return false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu for the CAB
        MenuInflater inflater = mode.getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.context, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {
        // Here you can make any necessary updates to the activity when
        // the CAB is removed. By default, selected items are deselected/unchecked.
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
        // Here you can perform updates to the CAB due to
        // an invalidate() request
        return false;
    }
})

Upvotes: 1

Views: 580

Answers (1)

dan
dan

Reputation: 214

http://www.technotalkative.com/contextual-action-bar-cab-android/

tldr;

1) Implement the ActionMode.Callback interface.

2) Call startActionMode() when you want to show the bar.

Upvotes: 0

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