How to Copy Text to Clip Board in Android?

Question

Can anybody please tell me how to copy the text present in a particular textview to clipboard when a button is pressed? Thanx :)

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.mainpage);
    textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
    copyText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bCopy);
    copyText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {


        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
            String getstring = textView.getText().toString();

            //Help to continue :)





        }
    });
}

}

I want to copy the Text in TextView textView to clipboard when the Button bCopy is pressed! Please do help...

Answer 1

use this code

   private ClipboardManager myClipboard;
   private ClipData myClip;
   TextView textView;
   Button copyText;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.mainpage);
    textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
    copyText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bCopy);
    myClipboard = (ClipboardManager)getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);

    copyText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {


        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub


           String text = textView.getText().toString();
           myClip = ClipData.newPlainText("text", text);
           myClipboard.setPrimaryClip(myClip);
           Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Text Copied", 
           Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
        }
    });
}

Answer 2

@SuppressLint({ "NewApi", "NewApi", "NewApi", "NewApi" })
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
@TargetApi(11)
public void onClickCopy(View v) {   // User-defined onClick Listener
    int sdk_Version = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if(sdk_Version < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
        android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        clipboard.setText(textView.getText().toString());   // Assuming that you are copying the text from a TextView
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Copied to Clipboard!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    else { 
        android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
        android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Text Label", textView.getText().toString());
        clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Copied to Clipboard!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }   
}

Answer 3

This can be done in Kotlin like this:

var clipboard = getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
var clip = ClipData.newPlainText("label", file.readText())
clipboard.primaryClip = clip

Where file.readText() is your input string.

Answer 4

Here the method to copy text to clipboard:

private void setClipboard(Context context, String text) {
  if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 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("Copied Text", text);
    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
  }
}

This method is working on all android devices.