Add custom selection menu on Android in React Native WebView - react-native

Question

I'm trying to show custom buttons for text selection in React-Native WebView on Android. I've created a custom component as described here. It works fine.
Following this answer, I'm trying to override ActionMode with custom ActionMode.Callback to display my custom menu. However it doesn't seem to work at all.
My code:
CustomWebViewManager.java
protected static class CustomWebView extends RNCWebView {
public Context context;
public CustomWebView(ThemedReactContext reactContext) {
super(reactContext);
this.context=context;
}
// setting custom action bar
private ActionMode mActionMode;
private ActionMode.Callback mSelectActionModeCallback;
private GestureDetector mDetector;
// this will over ride the default action bar on long press
#Override
public ActionMode startActionMode(Callback callback) {
ViewParent parent = getParent();
if (parent == null) {
return null;
}
String name = callback.getClass().toString();
if (name.contains("SelectActionModeCallback")) {
mSelectActionModeCallback = callback;
mDetector = new GestureDetector(context,
new CustomGestureListener());
}
CustomActionModeCallback mActionModeCallback = new CustomActionModeCallback();
return parent.startActionModeForChild(this, mActionModeCallback);
}
private class CustomActionModeCallback implements ActionMode.Callback {
#Override
public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
mActionMode = mode;
MenuInflater inflater = mode.getMenuInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
return true;
}
//overriding onPrepareActionMode, onActionItemClicked and onDestroyActionMode as usual
...
}
private class CustomGestureListener extends GestureDetector.SimpleOnGestureListener {
#Override
public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent e) {
if (mActionMode != null) {
mActionMode.finish();
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
if(mDetector !=null)
mDetector.onTouchEvent(event);
return super.onTouchEvent(event);
}
}
What I'm doing wrong here? Is that a correct approach?
Thanks.