Android copy/paste from clipboard manager
Solution 1:
you can copy and paste text using following code :
-
for copy :
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("your_text_to_be_copied"); clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip); -
And paste it :
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); String pasteData = ""; // If it does contain data, decide if you can handle the data. if (!(clipboard.hasPrimaryClip())) { } else if (!(clipboard.getPrimaryClipDescription().hasMimeType(MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN))) { // since the clipboard has data but it is not plain text } else { //since the clipboard contains plain text. ClipData.Item item = clipboard.getPrimaryClip().getItemAt(0); // Gets the clipboard as text. pasteData = item.getText().toString(); }
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Solution 2:
If you just want to "copy and paste" some code into your app, you can use the following.
#Copy
String textToCopy = etCodeWindow.getText().toString();
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText(null, textToCopy);
if (clipboard == null) return;
clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
#Paste
Get the text to paste
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
if (clipboard == null) return;
ClipData clip = clipboard.getPrimaryClip();
if (clip == null) return;
ClipData.Item item = clip.getItemAt(0);
if (item == null) return;
CharSequence textToPaste = item.getText();
if (textToPaste == null) return;
or
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
try {
CharSequence textToPaste = clipboard.getPrimaryClip().getItemAt(0).getText();
} catch (Exception e) {
return;
}
or the same in Kotlin:
val clipboard = (getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE)) as? ClipboardManager
val textToPaste = clipboard?.primaryClip?.getItemAt(0)?.text ?: return false
Inserting it at the cursor position
If there is a selection then the selection will be replaced with the paste text.
int start = Math.max(myEditText.getSelectionStart(), 0);
int end = Math.max(myEditText.getSelectionEnd(), 0);
myEditText.getText().replace(Math.min(start, end), Math.max(start, end),
textToPaste, 0, textToPaste.length());
#Notes
- This answer assumes that you are no longer supporting pre-API 11. If you are then see the edit history.
- Import
android.content.ClipboardManagerandandroid.content.ClipData. - I used to just get the paste text in a one liner until I discovered that ClipData was giving a NPE crash sometimes. Now I would either use a try/catch block or check more carefully for nulls.
Solution 3:
a short summary of above after honeycomb >= API 13:
public String readFromClipboard() {
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
if (clipboard.hasPrimaryClip()) {
android.content.ClipDescription description = clipboard.getPrimaryClipDescription();
android.content.ClipData data = clipboard.getPrimaryClip();
if (data != null && description != null && description.hasMimeType(ClipDescription.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN))
return String.valueOf(data.getItemAt(0).getText());
}
return null;
}
Solution 4:
I do it this way. Clipboard manager for all api levels.
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.ClipData;
import android.content.ClipboardManager;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.AssetFileDescriptor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.util.Log;
public class MyClipboardManager {
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public boolean copyToClipboard(Context context, String text) {
try {
int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if (sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) context
.getSystemService(context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
clipboard.setText(text);
} else {
android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) context
.getSystemService(context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData
.newPlainText(
context.getResources().getString(
R.string.message), text);
clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
}
return true;
} catch (Exception e) {
return false;
}
}
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public String readFromClipboard(Context context) {
int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if (sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) context
.getSystemService(context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
return clipboard.getText().toString();
} else {
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context
.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
// Gets a content resolver instance
ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
// Gets the clipboard data from the clipboard
ClipData clip = clipboard.getPrimaryClip();
if (clip != null) {
String text = null;
String title = null;
// Gets the first item from the clipboard data
ClipData.Item item = clip.getItemAt(0);
// Tries to get the item's contents as a URI pointing to a note
Uri uri = item.getUri();
// If the contents of the clipboard wasn't a reference to a
// note, then
// this converts whatever it is to text.
if (text == null) {
text = coerceToText(context, item).toString();
}
return text;
}
}
return "";
}
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public CharSequence coerceToText(Context context, ClipData.Item item) {
// If this Item has an explicit textual value, simply return that.
CharSequence text = item.getText();
if (text != null) {
return text;
}
// If this Item has a URI value, try using that.
Uri uri = item.getUri();
if (uri != null) {
// First see if the URI can be opened as a plain text stream
// (of any sub-type). If so, this is the best textual
// representation for it.
FileInputStream stream = null;
try {
// Ask for a stream of the desired type.
AssetFileDescriptor descr = context.getContentResolver()
.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(uri, "text/*", null);
stream = descr.createInputStream();
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(stream,
"UTF-8");
// Got it... copy the stream into a local string and return it.
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(128);
char[] buffer = new char[8192];
int len;
while ((len = reader.read(buffer)) > 0) {
builder.append(buffer, 0, len);
}
return builder.toString();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// Unable to open content URI as text... not really an
// error, just something to ignore.
} catch (IOException e) {
// Something bad has happened.
Log.w("ClippedData", "Failure loading text", e);
return e.toString();
} finally {
if (stream != null) {
try {
stream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
}
// If we couldn't open the URI as a stream, then the URI itself
// probably serves fairly well as a textual representation.
return uri.toString();
}
// Finally, if all we have is an Intent, then we can just turn that
// into text. Not the most user-friendly thing, but it's something.
Intent intent = item.getIntent();
if (intent != null) {
return intent.toUri(Intent.URI_INTENT_SCHEME);
}
// Shouldn't get here, but just in case...
return "";
}
}