Hi @justinmc,

The ability to add custom buttons for app specific functionality should also be considered. For instance, Twitter has "mute" and "search" buttons which are app specific which can be seen when a text is selected. It'd be useful if the developer can add such buttons by providing a list of Strings and their respective callbacks.

By the way, the table is missing some buttons for iOS and Android:

• For iOS, the following buttons are not mentioned: Replace, Lookup, Translate, and Share (they appear when text is selected)

• For Android, "Web Search" isn't mentioned (Maybe it's not appearing in the screenshot because it's taken from within the browser)

@osaxma You're in luck for custom app-specific context menu buttons, I have a PR open for that right now: #107193

And thank you for calling out those missing buttons! I've updated the table to include them.

we are dealing with this now as well.
One monk showed me what we are missing as pictured in op
Since we are vocabulary intensive reading app, we would also like anki.
(tipitaka pali reader)

The lack of buttons in text selection is critical for native like experience. In android, developers can add floating text selection toolbar actions that will show in every native app through the ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT intent. We should show these options in flutter apps as well.

Other standard iOS options

• search web
• speak
• spell
• add to user dictionary...

The bigger issue here is not just to add the buttons. It's that the system itself provides them. If iOS 18 or Android 14 adds "ask ChatGPT" and "Generate AI video" and "find related photos" as standard options, it should not require every Flutter app in existance to rebuild with a newer version of flutter and re-go through the app-store approval process for that option to appear on the context menu.

As an Android user I find the "Translate" button in particular to be extremely useful, any time I'm reading text in a language other than English. (Even if I know the language moderately well, I'll use it regularly for words and phrases I don't understand.) When it's missing in a given app, if it's any app that's heavy on reading text, I'll notice and it's disappointing.

So as a developer I imagine many of my users value it too.

I believe the "Translate" button is actually another example in this category, though (aka #107603):

How about buttons inserted by the system, such as the Anki Card button in my Android screenshot added by the AnkiDroid app?

In android, developers can add floating text selection toolbar actions that will show in every native app through the ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT intent. We should show these options in flutter apps as well.

in that I believe it's added by the Google Translate app. (Other translation apps like DeepL add their own text selection buttons, too.) So supporting this category would be especially appreciated.

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@justinmc Should this issue be considered an umbrella issue or moved to a project? I don't know that it is clear which team should own it.

@mossmana I'm fine with design/text-input owning it. I think I would keep it as an umbrella issue. I'll update the title and add links to relevant PRs.

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