Show ActionMode over ActionMode - android

I have a list activity in which the user can do open action modes A and B. The user can also open action mode A then B on top of it.
The problem is that when action mode A is shown and action mode B is shown on top of it, A gets closed automatically when B is shown. The user can't navigate back from B to A.
I thought I could take note of action mode A visibility when action mode B is opened then restore it when action mode B is closed, but that doesn't work. It seems that it's not possible to immediately show another action mode after closing one. However this issue only happens if the action mode A is closed with the back arrow. When closed by code (ActionMode.finish()), action mode B can be shown, but the closing animation doesn't make it look like user is navigating back from B to A. So this solution is out of question.
So is there a way to open an action mode on top of another, or at least replace the menu layout of an action mode programatically then change it back?
Action mode A is actually the search action mode, from which the user can select results which opens action mode B if that can help to understand.

I think I reached desired behavior through postDelayed() from onDestroyActionMode of action mode B.
This is not very elegant solution, but it works.
My code snippet:
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
listView.onItemClickListener = AdapterView.OnItemClickListener { adapterView, view, p2, p3 ->
startActionModeA()
true
}
}
var actionModeA: ActionMode? = null
val actionModeCallbackA = object : ActionMode.Callback {
override fun onActionItemClicked(mode: ActionMode?, p1: MenuItem?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onActionItemClicked")
actionModeB = startActionMode(actionModeCallbackB)
return true
}
override fun onCreateActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onCreateActionMode")
val inflater = mode?.getMenuInflater()
inflater?.inflate(R.menu.context_menu, menu)
return true
}
override fun onPrepareActionMode(p0: ActionMode?, p1: Menu?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onPrepareActionMode")
return false
}
override fun onDestroyActionMode(p0: ActionMode?) {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE", "onDestroyActionMode")
actionModeA = null
}
}
var actionModeB: ActionMode? = null
val actionModeCallbackB = object : ActionMode.Callback {
override fun onActionItemClicked(mode: ActionMode?, p1: MenuItem?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE 2", "onActionItemClicked")
return true
}
override fun onCreateActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE 2", "onCreateActionMode")
val inflater = mode?.getMenuInflater()
inflater?.inflate(R.menu.context_menu2, menu)
return true
}
override fun onPrepareActionMode(p0: ActionMode?, p1: Menu?): Boolean {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE 2", "onPrepareActionMode")
return false
}
override fun onDestroyActionMode(mode: ActionMode?) {
Log.wtf("ACTION MODE 2", "onDestroyActionMode")
actionModeB = null
listView.postDelayed({
startActionModeA()
}, 100)
}
}
private fun startActionModeA() {
actionModeA = startActionMode(actionModeCallbackA)
}

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I hope you are well.
My question is why this callback class has two of the same functions?
the only difference that I see is that some functions deal with nullable and the others don't, but in the end, we can achieve what want with both ways (with nullable or without nullable)
if anyone has a good explanation for this and thanks in advance
private val actionModeCallback = object : Callback, android.view.ActionMode.Callback {
override fun onCreateActionMode(mode: ActionMode, menu: Menu): Boolean {
return false
}
// Called each time the action mode is shown. Always called after onCreateActionMode, but
// may be called multiple times if the mode is invalidated.
override fun onPrepareActionMode(mode: ActionMode, menu: Menu): Boolean {
return false // Return false if nothing is done
}
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return false
}
// Called when the user exits the action mode
override fun onDestroyActionMode(mode: ActionMode) {
actionMode = null
}
override fun onCreateActionMode(p0: android.view.ActionMode?, p1: Menu?): Boolean {
// Called when the action mode is created; startActionMode() was called
// Inflate a menu resource providing context menu items
val inflater: MenuInflater = p0!!.menuInflater
inflater.inflate(R.menu.memory_fragment_context_menu, p1)
return true
}
override fun onPrepareActionMode(p0: android.view.ActionMode?, p1: Menu?): Boolean {
return false
}
override fun onActionItemClicked(p0: android.view.ActionMode?, p1: MenuItem?): Boolean {
return when (p1?.itemId) {
R.id.someId -> {
Toast.makeText(context,"go to hell", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
selectionTracker?.clearSelection()
p0?.finish() // Action picked, so close the CAB
true
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...
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actionMode = null
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xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
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android:title="#string/menu_option_text_delete"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_delete_white_24dp"
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menu.findItem(R.id.menu_upload_to_cloud).setShowAsAction
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Actually this was a mistake in my part as pointed out in the issue tracker
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Note that you should use the passed in mode and not your own
ActionMode object to get the correct inflater.

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I have an Implementation of ActionMode to display the number of multi
selected items in a RecyclerView.
I would like to know when the back button in the actionMode is tapped so as to correspondingly reset the recyclerView but while implementing the ActionMode.Callback, i noticed that onDestroyActionMode is called whenever ActionMode is updated thus actionMode?.setTitle($selectedItems.size), which makes it impossible reset the recyclerView - remove selected items, remove overlay color and notify the recyclerview of data set changed.
Here's my Callback
inner class ActionModeCallback : ActionMode.Callback {
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when (item?.getItemId()) {
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Full source code Here =>https://github.com/Edge-Developer/RecyclerViewMultiSelectExample
Holy Gosh. It was my fault, i was starting a New ActionMode each time an item is selected (through an interface on MainActivity) instead of checking if it has already been started before starting a new One.
Here was my code
actionMode = startActionMode(ActionModeCallback())
Here is the updated code
if (actionMode == null) actionMode = startActionMode(ActionModeCallback())
now, the onDestroyActionMode is called only once, after the actionMode is dismissed!
You can check the github repo on how's it was implemented
This problem was faced while implementing multiselection on a recyclerView.

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