How to Copy Text to Clip Board in Android

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

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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.

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As a handy kotlin extension  fun Context copyToClipboard text  CharSequence       val clipboard   getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE  as ClipboardManager     val clip   ClipData newPlainText  quot label quot  text      clipboard setPrimaryClip clip     Update  If you using ContextCompat you should use  ContextCompat getSystemService this  ClipboardManager  class java

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Yesterday I made this class  Take it  it s 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  import de lochmann nsafirewall R   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  lt  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  lt  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    gt  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

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String stringYouExtracted   referraltxt getText   toString        android content ClipboardManager clipboard    android content ClipboardManager  getActivity   getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE       android content ClipData clip   android content ClipData newPlainText  Copied Text   stringYouExtracted    clipboard setPrimaryClip clip           Toast makeText getActivity     Copy coupon code copied to clickboard    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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Just use this  It works only for android api    11 before that you ll have to use a ClipData   ClipboardManager  clipboard    ClipboardManager   activity getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE    clipboard setText YOUR TEXT     Hope it helped you      UPDATE 3 19 2015    Just like Ujjwal Singh said it the method setText is deprecated now  you should use  just as the docs recommande it  setPrimaryClip clipData

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int sdk   android os Build VERSION SDK INT       if  sdk  lt  android os Build VERSION CODES HONEYCOMB            android text ClipboardManager clipboard    android text ClipboardManager  DetailView this                  getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE           clipboard setText      yourMessage toString             Toast makeText AppCstVar getAppContext                         getResources   getString R string txt copiedtoclipboard                   Toast LENGTH SHORT  show          else           android content ClipboardManager clipboard    android content ClipboardManager  DetailView this                  getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE           android content ClipData clip   android content ClipData                  newPlainText  message        yourMessage toString             clipboard setPrimaryClip clip           Toast makeText AppCstVar getAppContext                         getResources   getString R string txt copiedtoclipboard                   Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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use ClipboardManager   ClipboardManager clipboard    ClipboardManager  getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE     ClipData clip   ClipData newPlainText label  text    clipboard setPrimaryClip clip     make sure you have imported android content ClipboardManager and NOT android text ClipboardManager  Latter is deprecated  Check this link for Further information

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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

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use this function for copy to clipboard  public void copyToClipboard String copyText        int sdk   android os Build VERSION SDK INT      if  sdk  lt  android os Build VERSION CODES HONEYCOMB            android text ClipboardManager clipboard    android text ClipboardManager                  getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE           clipboard setText copyText         else           android content ClipboardManager clipboard    android content ClipboardManager                  getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE           android content ClipData clip   android content ClipData                  newPlainText  Your OTP   copyText           clipboard setPrimaryClip clip             Toast toast   Toast makeText getApplicationContext                 Your OTP is copied   Toast LENGTH SHORT       toast setGravity Gravity BOTTOM   Gravity RIGHT  50  50       toast show          displayAlert  Your OTP is copied

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You can perform this copy to clipboard function when onclick button event  so put these code lines inside your button onClickListerner  android content ClipboardManager clipboardManager    android content ClipboardManager getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE   android content ClipData clipData   android content ClipData newPlainText  Text Label   ViewPass getText   toString     clipboardManager setPrimaryClip clipData   Toast makeText getApplicationContext    Copied from Clipboard   Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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to search clip board list first get the clipboard object like this   private val clipboard   context getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE  as ClipboardManager  then check if there is any data in clip board by this function   fun isClipboardContainsData     Boolean          return when               clipboard hasPrimaryClip   - gt  false             else - gt  true                  then use this function to go through the clipboard object like below  fun searchClipboard     ClipData Item            return if  isClipboardContainsData                  val items   clipboard primaryClip             val clipboardSize   items  itemCount    0             for  i in 0  clipboardSize                    val item   items  getItemAt i                  return if  item    null                          return item                  else                     null                           return null          else             null         here you can see that the searchClipboard Item will return an item of type ClipData Item  the clipboard contains a list of ClipData Item and if you go through implementation of clipboard this is what you will find about ClipData Item  public static class Item       final CharSequence mText      final String mHtmlText      final Intent mIntent       UnsupportedAppUsage maxTargetSdk   Build VERSION CODES P  trackingBug   115609023      Uri mUri     so what you can hold in a clipboard item could be of type   CharSequence String Intent this supports copying application shortcuts  Uri  for copying complex data from a content provider

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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  lt  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

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With Jetpack Compose  it s really easy  AmbientClipboardManager current setText AnnotatedString  quot Copied Text quot

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Try the following code  It will support the latest API   ClipboardManager clipboard    ClipboardManager  context getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE                           if  clipboard hasPrimaryClip                                  android content ClipDescription description   clipboard getPrimaryClipDescription                                android content ClipData data   clipboard getPrimaryClip                                if  data    null  amp  amp  description    null  amp  amp  description hasMimeType ClipDescription MIMETYPE TEXT PLAIN                                                                 String url   String  clipboard getText                                    searchText setText url                                   System out println  data   data  description   description  url   url

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In Kotlin I have an extension for this fun Context copyToClipboard text  String      val clipboard   getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE  as ClipboardManager   val clip       ClipData newPlainText getString R string copy clipboard label  getString R string app name   text    clipboard setPrimaryClip clip

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use this method    ClipboardManager clipboard    ClipboardManager  getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE     ClipData clip   ClipData newPlainText label  text    clipboard setPrimaryClip clip     at the place of setPrimaryClip we can also use the following methods   void    clearPrimaryClip     Clears any current primary clip on the clipboard   ClipData    getPrimaryClip     Returns the current primary clip on the clipboard   ClipDescription getPrimaryClipDescription     Returns a description of the current primary clip on the clipboard but not a copy of its data   CharSequence    getText     This method is deprecated  Use getPrimaryClip   instead  This retrieves the primary clip and tries to coerce it to a string   boolean hasPrimaryClip     Returns true if there is currently a primary clip on the clipboard

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ClipboardManager clipboard    ClipboardManager  mContext getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE     ClipData clip   ClipData newPlainText label  text    clipboard setPrimaryClip clip

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Just write this code   clipboard setText getstring

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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

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For copy any text in Android              TextView text   findViewById R id text id               ImageView icons   findViewById R id copy icon                icons setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                      Override                 public void onClick View v                        ClipboardManager clipboardManager    ClipboardManager getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE                       ClipData clipData   ClipData newPlainText  quot text whatever you want quot   text getText   toString                         clipboardManager setPrimaryClip clipData                        Toast makeText context   quot Text Copied quot   Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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Kotlin helper method to attach click to copy Texts on a TextView  Put this method somewhere in Util class  This method attach click listener on textview to Copy Content of textView to a clipText on click of that textView         Param   cliplabel  textview  context     fun attachClickToCopyText textView  TextView   clipLabel  String  context  Context         if  textView    null  amp  amp  null    context            textView setOnClickListener               val clipboard   context getSystemService Context CLIPBOARD SERVICE  as ClipboardManager             val clip   ClipData newPlainText clipLabel  textView   text              clipboard primaryClip   clip             Snackbar make textView                       Copied  clipLabel   Snackbar LENGTH LONG  show

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