Enabling copy and paste in webview android

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Is it possible to select the text from a webview then to copy and paste. Is there any special method to do this??Please help me..

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#emulateShiftHeld%28%29 — Akram, May 14 '12 at 13:01
Are you talking about allowing users to copy and paste in fields of a form being viewed in a Webview that you are displaying in your application? — Stan Kurdziel, Oct 01 '12 at 20:44
I just tested on an embedded webview on gingerbread 2.3.7 and jelly bean 4.1.1. Nothing special in the code to allow copy/paste, but I was able to copy some text (from html body) and paste into another app or an html form in the same embedded webview. The copy/paste in webkit is a bit less smooth than in native android views, but after a couple long press attempts, it was possible. Maybe it has something to do with the html you are displaying in the WebView? — Stan Kurdziel, Nov 01 '12 at 00:16
I need this feature on Android 2.1 devices. Sorry i forgot to add this on title. — Faison N.P, Nov 07 '12 at 11:01

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '12 at 13:38

Hope this will help you...

public void selectAndCopyText() {
     try {
         Method m = WebView.class.getMethod("emulateShiftHeld", Boolean.TYPE); 
            m.invoke(BookView.mWebView, false); 
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            // fallback
            KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new KeyEvent(0,0,
                 KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT,0,0);
            shiftPressEvent.dispatch(this);
        }

}

override the touch events

private void emulateShiftHeld(WebView view)
    {
        try
        {
            KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new KeyEvent(0, 0, KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,
                                                    KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT, 0, 0);
            shiftPressEvent.dispatch(view);
            Toast.makeText(this, "select_text_now", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Log.e("dd", "Exception in emulateShiftHeld()", e);
        }
    }

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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According to this site of someone's blog says " Copy functionality in a WebView is available by default in Android 3.0 and above", and may be this information may be help, Android: how to select texts from webview

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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