Display custom context menu entries for text selection

Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, Please describe.

I’d like to be able to run my own code for the text I select on different webpages within the webview via the popup context menu. Currently the possible options there seems to be limited to whatever the default system options are.

Describe the solutions you came up with

Solutions would be to either:

• enable adding of new entries to the default context menu
• showing our own context menu made up only of defined entries

Additional context

• There was this closed, but unresolved, issue on the react-native repo with the same idea: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/19111
• The last post in there links to this package to customize context menu entries. It works great for general text, but does not work with <WebView>: https://github.com/Astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text
• I found some stackoverflow answers detailing how to do this in native code. Alas I am not experienced with native mobile development, and they very well may be not be relevant answers anymore going by the dates. Android (https://stackoverflow.com/a/22391169) and iOS (https://stackoverflow.com/a/3596414).

Thanks for your time, and please let me know if you need any more information.

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https://medium.com/flutter-community/inappwebview-the-real-power-of-webviews-in-flutter-c6d52374209d If you search for “Custom context menus” on this page, it’s possible to do similar things with https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_inappwebview in flutter. Maybe there’s a way to borrow some code there and make it work for React Native Webview?

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Any updates?