Paste text on Android Emulator

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Is there an easy way to copy paste  desktop s  clipboard content to EditView on Android Emulator      just for the sake to ease development test

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With v25 3 x of the Android Emulator  amp  x86 Google API Emulator system images API Level 19  Android 4 4 - Kitkat  and higher  you can simply copy and paste from your desktop with your mouse or keyboard   This feature was announced with Android Studio 2 3

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converting comment discussion to answer   only solution on windows  https   github com gcb AdbPaste  wrote it in a couple hours to work around this problem  I am now back on 100  linux  so feel free to join it as a contributor or maintainer

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Have you looked at C2DM  chrome2phone and fox2phone can send links and clipboard text and automatically copy it on the phone  Also  try using the adb shell  There s a service command   system bin service  which can use services  service call clipboard       The transaction codes are 1  2  and 3  for getClipboardText  setClipboardText  and hasClipboardText respectively

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You can do this without workarounds too  Just click and hold for a bit in the input field till the paste notification appears and then click on paste  That s it

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maybe a little bit tricky  but you could send an sms to the emulator by using the emulator control  then you do not have to retype all the text if it is longer and can copy-paste it in the emulator   another way  connect to emulator via  telnet localhost PORT  and then use hardware event sending to send a text input event to the emulator  needs to be UTF-8   look at this

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Made this Windows application that allows users to copy paste to Android emulators or connected devices from a visual interface  https   github com Florin-Birgu Android-Copy-Paste

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In a terminal  type adb shell input text  my string here  With some characters escaped like    that    Note that an alternative method for including spaces in the text is to substitute  s for each space character

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An easy way is there  Activate keyboard in emulator  Click on the place you want to paste and long press  press until you see the word PASTE  Done   See original answer  https   www quora com How-do-I-paste-text-from-my-computer-to-Android-emulator

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On Linux this will paste text directly from the clipboard  adb shell input text     xclip -selection c -o      Also it very useful to create global keyboard shortkey with this command for example Ctrl Shift Super V

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Only For  API level    24   Copy any text from your local machine and then simply run this command  adb shell input keyevent 279   Make sure In Android Emulator Settings the Enable Clipboard Sharing options is enabled

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Just click the left mouse button for 2 or 3 seconds  paste button will be appear  Click the paste button and the test will be copied smoothly

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For Mac users  a MUCH easier way is to do this right in the android emulator   click and hold for a second or two release click the option  paste  will appear as follow

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Just copy from wherever  click and hold on the emulator phone s edit text where you want the text to go  kind of like you would press and hold to paste on an actual phone   the PASTE option will appear  then PASTE

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If you are using Android Studio on a Mac  you may need to provide the full path to the adb executable  To find this path  open   Android Studio  gt  Tools  gt  Android  gt  SDK Manager   Copy the path to the SDK location  The adb executable will be within a platform-tools directory  For me  this was the path     Library Android sdk platform-tools adb   Now you can run this command     Library Android sdk platform-tools adb shell input text  thetextyouwanttopaste

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I usually send the text I want to copy as an sms message through telnet and then copy the text from the sms message  Here s how   Connect through telnet    Syntax  telnet localhost  lt port gt  Example  telnet localhost 5554    5554 is the default port  The title bar of the emulator shows the port that is being used  so you can see if it s different    Send message    Syntax  sms send  lt senders phone number gt   lt message gt  Example  sms send 1231231234 This is the message you want to send    You can just make up the senders phone number   This works really well for links as the message is automatically converted into a hyperlink which you can click without having to copy   paste it into the browser   Once the emulator receives the message you can copy it and paste it wherever you like

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Write command  adb devices  it will list the device currently connected  Select Textbox where you want to write text  Write command  adb shell input text  Yourtext   make sure only one device is connected to run this command  Done

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I got tired of this problem so I just made this alias to handle it   alias ap  pbpaste   xargs adb shell input text    Then when you open a new terminal window  typing  ap  will paste whatever is on your clipboard into the emulator s actively selected text field   Setup  Simply add this to your profile  for most users that s    bash profile for zsh users that s    zshrc  to make the alias available everywhere  Alternatively  if you re a bash user  the default for MacOS   then you can run the following command in the terminal to set it up for you   echo  alias ap  pbpaste   xargs adb shell input text    gt  gt     bash profile  amp  amp  source    bash profile

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Not sure if that s useful  but  if you need a long URL from desktop browser to be opened in mobile browser  you can send SMS with that URL and open directly from message app

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For Mac and Linux try this function in your aliases bash file  located in  etc aliases bash for Mac folks  be sure to use sudo vim  etc aliases bash   function adbtx     userinput    sed  s    s g   lt  lt  lt   1     adb shell input text    userinput      export -f adbtx   Then in the command line enter   adbtx  Your text to emulator input     Your text to emulator input  will be input on the emulator text field   Kudos to Eliot for his substitution string for sed

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Using Visual Studio Emulator  Here s my method   First Mound a virtual sd card    Use the Additional Tools  small    icon  for the emulator and go to the SD Card tab   Select a folder on your computer to sync with the virtual SD card  Pull from SD card  which will create a folder structure on the selected folder    Set up a text file to transfer text    Use Google Play Store to install a text editor of your choice Create a text file containing your text on you computer in the download directory of the virtual sd card directory you created before    Whenever I need to send text to the clip board    Edit the text file created above  Go to Additional Tools  small    icon  and chose Push To SD Card  Open the text file in the text editor I installed and copy the text to the clip board   Hold down the mouse when the dialog opens  choose select all and then click the copy icon    Once set up it pretty easy to repeat  The same method would be applicable to other emulators by you may need to use a different method to push your text file to emulator

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I came here looking for a solution to the same problem  and ended up writing an Android application to solve this problem  You can download it at http   www box net shared 6203bn441bfltkimajmk  Just give a URL via Preferences menu to point to a place where you can change the Web response easily  The first line of the Web response will be copied to your emulator s clipboard for you  More details can be found at http   agilesc barryku com  p 255

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