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Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 2311

Copy to clipboard by Notification Action

I am trying to do a Notification Action (for Android 4.1+) that will copy some text to the clipboard. I read the reference about the Copy-Paste feature and now I have this:

        ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager)
            mContext.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
    ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("simple text","Hello, World!");

I don't know how to put it into an Intent that will be put into a PendingIntent.

If you can give me some example and explain it - it will be great! I'm a new with android developing. Thank you in advance.

Edit: I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12601766/1866009 but I don't understand it correctly.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4578

Answers (2)

Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 2311

With android developer's help the problem was solved by this code:

        BroadcastReceiver brCopy = new BroadcastReceiver() {

        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager)
                    mContext.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
            ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("label", "text");
            clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
            Toast.makeText(mContext, "Copied!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        }
    };
    IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter("com.example.ACTION_COPY");
    mContext.registerReceiver(brCopy, intentFilter);

    Intent copy = new Intent("com.example.ACTION_COPY");
    PendingIntent piCopy = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(mContext, 0, copy, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);

    mBuilder.addAction(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_copy, "Copy", piCopy);

Upvotes: 8

android developer
android developer

Reputation: 115952

check this tutorial about android notifications actions :

http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidNotifications/article.html

when creating the pendingIntent , give it a custom intent that will be received by your broadcastReceiver (defined in your manifest, example here ) , and then do whatever you wish with it (for example copy to the clipboard) .

Upvotes: 4

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