That depends on the action and amount of actions - if you want to display more actions than two, you still need a different solution.

For example Try press & holding on a contact in the contacts app on iOS or Android. Both have implemented it as a context menu.

Apple actually uses long press to open a context menu on iOS a lot.

An alternative could be implementing it as a bottomsheet, but that was not the ask.

Also agreed. Especially for rich canvas-oriented apps. Swipe view is only useful for lists.

@anpin That looks helpful, that it also supports desktop.
Do you have experience with https://github.com/the49ltd/The49.Maui.ContextMenu? Do you have a comparison with your library?

I cannot seem to get your NuGet package to work (.NET 8, CommunityToolkit.Maui=9.0.3, Microsoft.Maui.Controls=8.0.82, Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility=8.0.82)... I need it to work in WinUI and iOS.

Trying in WinUI:
+Added ContextMenuContainer v1.2.3 in my proj file
+Added APES.UI.XF.ContextMenuContainer.Init() in the constructor of App.xaml.cs (root of the project)
+Added xmlns:c="http://apes.ge" and

<StackLayout>
    <c:ContextMenuContainer x:Name="container1">
        <c:ContextMenuContainer.MenuItems>
            <c:ContextMenuItem Text="Action 1" />
            <c:ContextMenuItem Text="Action with icon" />
        </c:ContextMenuContainer.MenuItems>
        <c:ContextMenuContainer.Content>
            <Frame BackgroundColor="ForestGreen" Padding="24" CornerRadius="0" >

                <Label Text="***FOO FOO!!!" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" TextColor="White" FontSize="36" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="Center" MinimumHeightRequest="30" MinimumWidthRequest="100"/>

            </Frame>
        </c:ContextMenuContainer.Content>
    </c:ContextMenuContainer>
</StackLayout>

to the XAML where I want to have the context menu. Everything compiles.

I see the ***FOO FOO!!! being rendered on the nice green background, but no context menu is popping up. I left-click, left-click hold, right-click, right-click hold... nothing.

Any ideas?

One can use this package https://github.com/anpin/ContextMenuContainer (shameless plug!). Which was just updated to support MAUI. Allows one to display context menu with long-tap on mobile and right-click on desktop.

It would be a great addition, if it worked in MAUI. I tried to build it for MAUI 9 but gave up - too many problems with MAUI.
Additionally, I could not figure out from the current code, how it even pops up. Could it be that some code was lost, as the previous poster reported the issue of the menu not appearing as well?

Please try updated version published yesterday. Support for Xamarin.Forms was removed and sample using latest MAUI is now tested in github actions.