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SARA
SARA

Reputation: 21

Android- Code to Copy and Paste desired string from Text view using ClipBoard

Need to select the text from text view to desired range and do copy.I tried using onClick Listener on Text view and also i added android:textIsSelectable="true" at xml

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.main);
            textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview1);

                textView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

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

                                            textView.setKeyListener(null);
                        textView.setFocusable(true);


                        String stringYouExtracted = textView.getText().toString();
                        int startIndex = textView.getSelectionStart();
                        int endIndex = textView.getSelectionEnd();
                        stringYouExtracted = stringYouExtracted.substring(startIndex, endIndex);
                        ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
                        clipboard.setText(stringYouExtracted);
                    }
                });
     Toast.makeText(this, "Text clipped!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                 .show();

            }

        }

But it is not selecting the text and not getting the text to be copied

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2348

Answers (3)

SKG
SKG

Reputation: 366

you can do it this way:

ClipboardManager myClipboard = myClipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
ClipData myClip;
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
int min = 0;
int max = editText.getText().length();
if (editText.isFocused()) {
    final int selStart = editText.getSelectionStart();
    final int selEnd = editText.getSelectionEnd();
    min = Math.max(0, Math.min(selStart, selEnd));
    max = Math.max(0, Math.max(selStart, selEnd));
}
// here is your selected text
final CharSequence selectedText = editText.getText().subSequence(min, max);
String text = selectedText.toString();


// copy to clipboard
myClip = ClipData.newPlainText("text", text);
myClipboard.setPrimaryClip(myClip);

Replace EditText with TextView.

Upvotes: 0

user3410344
user3410344

Reputation: 41

Try it :

txt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        String stringYouExtracted = txt.getText().toString();
        int startIndex = txt.getSelectionStart();
        int endIndex = txt.getSelectionEnd();
        stringYouExtracted = stringYouExtracted.substring(startIndex, endIndex);
        ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        clipboard.setText(stringYouExtracted);

And Add android:textIsSelectable="true" too ...........

Upvotes: 1

Hariharan
Hariharan

Reputation: 24853

Try this..

Remove below lines..

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
                        clipboard.setText(stringYouExtracted);

And add the below lines..

if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
    android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
    clipboard.setText(stringYouExtracted);
} else {
    android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
    android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Copied Text", stringYouExtracted);
            clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
}

I hope this will help..

Upvotes: 1

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