How to handle onContextItemSelected in a multi fragment activity?

I'll post an answer even though you found a workaround because I just dealt with a similar issue. When you inflate the context menu for a specific fragment, assign each menu item a groupId that is unique to the fragment. Then test for the groupId in 'onContextItemSelected.' For Example:

public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    menu.add(UNIQUE_FRAGMENT_GROUP_ID, MENU_OPTION_1, 0, R.string.src1);
    menu.add(UNIQUE_FRAGMENT_GROUP_ID, MENU_OPTION_2, 0, R.string.src2);
}
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    //only this fragment's context menus have group ID of -1
    if (item.getGroupId() == UNIQUE_FRAGMENT_GROUP_ID) {
        switch(item.getItemId()) {
        case MENU_OPTION_1: doSomething(); break;
        case MENU_OPTION_2: doSomethingElse(); break;
    }
}

This way all of your fragments will still receive calls to 'onContextItemSelected,' but only the correct one will respond, thus avoiding the need to write activity-level code. I assume a modified version of this technique could work even though you aren't using 'menu.add(...)'

Another one solution:

@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    if (getUserVisibleHint()) {
        // context menu logic
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Based upon this patch from Jake Wharton.

I liked the simple solution by Sergei G (based on Jake Wharton fix), but inverted because it is easier to add to several fragments:

public boolean onContextItemSelected(android.view.MenuItem item) 
{  
    if( getUserVisibleHint() == false ) 
    {
        return false;
    }

    // The rest of your onConextItemSelect code
    AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo();
 }

After that, the code same as it was before.

I found out a very easy solution. As onCreateContextMenu() is called every time the ContextMenu is created I set a boolean variable to true.

public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
    MenuInflater inflater = getActivity().getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.film_menu, menu);
    bMenu=true;
}

The only other thing I have to do is ask for that variable OnContextItemSelected()

public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    if (bMenu) {
        bMenu=false;
        if (item.getItemId() == R.id.filmProperties) {
            ///Your code
            return true;
        } else {
            return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
        }
    } else {
        return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
    }
}

That's it.

I found an alternative. It does not change anything on my problem above, but it makes it pointless.

I have remove the context menu completely from my application. Instead I capture the longclick on a list item and change the visible buttons of the action bar in this moment. From the user point of view this is much more tablet like as a context menu.

In backward compatible applications the actionbar does not exist. So I've decided to build my own (kind of toolbar on top) for the devices pre Honeycomb.

If you would like to stay with the context menu, I did not find a better solution as the workaround I've mentioned above.