how to use context menu to remove item from listview in listactivity

Question

I have a simple app that is meant to add items to a list view when I click an add button on the options menu, and then later when I long click on one of the items added to the listview to then select either rename or remove and have that item in the listview either be renamed or removed. I can hard wire it to one of the items in the listview, but I can't figure out how to get which item was selected before the context menu comes up and then either rename or remove that selected one.

public class MainActivity_v3 extends ListActivity {

private int optionLastClickedId = -1;
private int optionClickedId = -1;
private boolean bSortByNum = true;

ArrayList<String> listItems=new ArrayList<String>();

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;

AdapterContextMenuInfo info;

int internalPosition;

int clickCounter=0;

protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id){
    Toast toast = Toast.makeText(null, "you clicked " + position, 
Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
    toast.show();

}

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

    AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo) 
menuInfo;
    internalPosition = info.position; 

    final MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); // why is this final
    if(v == getListView()){
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.list_menu_v3, menu);
    }else {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu_v3, menu);
    }
}

public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item){

    if(item.getMenuInfo() != null && item.getMenuInfo() instanceof 
AdapterContextMenuInfo){
        info = (AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo();

    }

    switch(item.getItemId()){
    case R.id.mi_delete:
        this.removeItems(internalPosition);

        break;
    case R.id.mi_rename:
        this.renameItems(internalPosition, "test1");

        break;
    case R.id.mi_cancel:
        break;
    }

    adapter.notifyDataSetInvalidated(); // test - remove later

    return true;
}

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

    int itemID = item.getItemId();

    switch(itemID){
    // switch(item.getItemId()){

            case R.id.add:
                this.addItems(getListView());
                break;

            case R.id.sort:
                Toast.makeText(this, "Sort", 
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                //adapter.sort();

    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

}

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { 
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_menu_v3, menu);
    return true;
}

public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main_v3);

    View textView = findViewById(R.id.text);
    registerForContextMenu(textView);
    registerForContextMenu(getListView());

    adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
        android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
        listItems);
    setListAdapter(adapter);


} // end - 0nCreate --------------------------------------

public void addItems(View v) {
    listItems.add("Clicked : "+clickCounter++);
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

public void removeItems(int selectedItem){
    listItems.remove(selectedItem);
    //listItems.remove(v);
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

public void renameItems(int index, String object){
    //listItems.set(v., object);
    listItems.set(index, object);
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu){

    MenuItem item = menu.findItem(optionLastClickedId);

    if(item != null){
        item.setEnabled(true);
    }
    item = menu.findItem(optionClickedId);
    if(item != null){
        item.setEnabled(false);
    }
    optionLastClickedId = optionClickedId;

    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
}

}

Answer 1

Simply remove the data object from Adapter of your ListView. Which item to remove can be found from internalPosition. Check below code for how to find internalPosition.

    @Override
    public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
        AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo) menuInfo;
        final int internalPosition = info.position; 
   }