Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduced a new
floating text selection toolbar, which brings the standard text selection actions, like cut, copy, and pastes, closer to the text you’ve selected. Even better though is the new
ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT which makes it possible for any app to add custom actions to that text selection toolbar.
The text selection toolbar in Android 6.0
Apps like
Wikipedia and
Google Translate are already taking advantage of it to instantly lookup or translate the selected text.
But finding information on implementing
ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT and adding your own actions? That’s what this thread will cover.
Step 1: Set up Intent Filter
AddActivityText(main,
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
</intent-filter>)
Step 2: Handle Intent in your Activity
Try
If Activity.GetStartingIntent.Action="android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT" Then
Dim strAction as String=Activity.GetStartingIntent.GetExtra("android.intent.extra.PROCESS_TEXT")
Msgbox(strAction, "Text selected:")
End If
Catch
Log(LastException)
End Try
In the above code, the Label Text would be same as the application Label. To customize this, we can add a new activity, and specify a new label:
'For Creating custom Text Selection actions with ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT
SetActivityAttribute(ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT, android:label, "ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT DEMO")
AddActivityText(ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT,
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
</intent-filter>)
Inside Activity_Create of ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT:
Try
If Activity.GetStartingIntent.Action="android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT" Then
Main.strActoin=Activity.GetStartingIntent.GetExtra("android.intent.extra.PROCESS_TEXT")
StartActivity(Main)
End If
Catch
Log(LastException)
End Try
Activity.Finish
