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I have an EditText and I want the user to be able to select some text and apply some basic formatting to the selected text (bold, italic, etc). I still want the standard copy, cut, paste options to show, though. I read somewhere in the Android documentation that to do this, you should call setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback() on the EditText and pass it an ActionModeCallback(), so that's what I did. Here's my code: In my activity's onCreate() method: myEditText.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new TextSelectionActionMode()); Callback declaration: private class TextSelectionActionMode implements ActionMode.Callback { @Override public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) { return false; } @Override public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { menu.add("Bold"); return true; } @Override public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) { } @Override public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { return false; } } The problem I'm having is that when I click on the overflow button (to access my "Bold" menu item), the ActionMode gets closed immediately. If I set it to always show as an action, using this: MenuItem bold = menu.add("Bold"); bold.setShowAsActionFlags(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS); It works fine and I can click on it (though it obviously does nothing). What am I missing here? Edit: Just wanted to add that I run into the exact same problem if I actually inflate a menu instead of adding menu items programmatically. Once again, though, the problem goes away if I force it to always show as an action.

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