How to create context menu for RecyclerView

How do I implement context menu for RecyclerView? Apparently calling registerForContextMenu(recyclerView) doesn't work. I'm calling it from a fragment. Did anybody have any success implementing this?

Thanks for the info and comments. I was able to achieve ContextMenu for items in Recyclerview.

Here is what I did

in Fragment's onViewCreated method or Activity's onCreate method:

registerForContextMenu(mRecyclerView);

Then in Adapter add

private int position;

public int getPosition() {
    return position;
}

public void setPosition(int position) {
    this.position = position;
}

make the ViewHolder class implement OnCreateContextMenuListener

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder 
        implements View.OnCreateContextMenuListener {

    public ImageView icon;

    public TextView fileName;
    public ImageButton menuButton;


    public ViewHolder(View v) {
        super(v);
        icon = (ImageView)v.findViewById(R.id.file_icon);
        fileName = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.file_name);
        menuButton = (ImageButton)v.findViewById(R.id.menu_button);
        v.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, 
        ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        //menuInfo is null
        menu.add(Menu.NONE, R.id.ctx_menu_remove_backup, 
            Menu.NONE, R.string.remove_backup);
        menu.add(Menu.NONE, R.id.ctx_menu_restore_backup,
            Menu.NONE, R.string.restore_backup);
    }
}

onBindViewHolder method add OnLongClickListener on the holder.itemView to capture the position before the context menu is loaded:

holder.itemView.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
        setPosition(holder.getPosition());
        return false;
    }
});

Then in onViewRecycled remove the Listener so that there are no reference issues. (may not be required).

@Override
public void onViewRecycled(ViewHolder holder) {
    holder.itemView.setOnLongClickListener(null);
    super.onViewRecycled(holder);
}

Finally in the Fragment/Activity override the onContextItemSelected as under:

@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int position = -1;
    try {
        position = ((BackupRestoreListAdapter)getAdapter()).getPosition();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.d(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
        return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
    }
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.ctx_menu_remove_backup:
            // do your stuff
            break;
        case R.id.ctx_menu_restore_backup:
            // do your stuff
            break;
    }
    return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
}

You can't directly implement these method like onClickListener, OnContextMenuListener etc. because RecycleView extends android.view.ViewGroup. So we cant directly use these method. We can implement these methods in ViewHolder adapter class. We can use context menu in RecycleView like this way:

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements OnCreateContextMenuListener {
    
    TextView tvTitle;
    ImageView ivImage;
    
    public ViewHolder(View v) {
        super(v);
        tvTitle =(TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.item_title);
        v.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(this);
        
        
    }
}

Now we follow the same procedure while implements the context menu.

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
     
    menu.setHeaderTitle("Select The Action");    
    menu.add(0, v.getId(), 0, "Call");//groupId, itemId, order, title   
    menu.add(0, v.getId(), 0, "SMS"); 
    
}

If you get any difficulties ask in comment.