CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidlistviewclipboard
rocks
rocks

Reputation: 190

Android Copy and Paste Multiple Text

I have used android clipboard manager to copy and paste text. Like whatsapp, i would like to copy multiple text from listview and paste those. I am able to do like this,

StringBuilder textMessage = new StringBuilder();
for(messsage) {
 textmessage.append(message);
 textmessage.append("\n"); 
}
ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("simple text", textMessage.toString());
clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);

Instead of appending the multiple textmessages into one, can i able to store the array of textmessages into one clip object and retrive using array indices.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2613

Answers (1)

Mithun
Mithun

Reputation: 2075

I guess, you could add multiple ClipData.Item to your ClipData. So instead of using static method newPlainText, create your new ClipData using 

ClipData(ClipDescription description, ClipData.Item item)

or any other constructor available.

I have used getItemCount method of ClipData to demonstrate that it is indeed a indexed list of values, so you can definitely use getItemAt to fetch any ClipData.Item from any position, provided position is not leading you to OutOfBoundException. Below code is very novice, but would serve the purpose of demonstration I believe. Let me know if you need any more help.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    ClipboardManager clipboard;
    static int var = 0;
    ClipData clipData;
    TextView tvClip;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        tvClip = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_add);

        clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);

        Button btnClip = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_add);
        btnClip.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                ClipData.Item item = new ClipData.Item("var" + var);
                if (clipData == null) {
                    clipData = new ClipData(new ClipDescription("your_clip_description", new String[]{ClipDescription.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN}), item);
                    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clipData);
                }
                clipData.addItem(item);
            }
        });

        Button showClip = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_show);
        showClip.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (clipData != null)
                    tvClip.setText("count = " + clipData.getItemCount());
            }
        });
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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