Copy Text of a Text Field

Question

I have a Text Field and a Button. I'd make it so as soon as the button is pressed the text of the Text Field to be copied. How can this be done? As I search it (How to copy text programmatically in my Android app?), I read about a ClipboardManager method but rumours say it is also deprecated. Should I avoid it? Thanks

Refer this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8056838/dealing-with-deprecated-android-text-clipboardmanager) — Lal, May 05 '14 at 15:27

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '14 at 15:31

Honeycomb deprecated android.text.ClipboardManager and introduced android.content.ClipboardManager.

You should check whether android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT is at least android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB and therefore use one or the other.

    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
    {
        // Old clibpoard
        android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        clipboard.setText("the text");
    } 
    else
    {
        android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        android.content.ClipData clipData = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("PlainText", "the text");
        clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clipData);
    }

This answer is very much similar to my answer @matiash ..kindly check other answers too before posting new answers.. — Lal, May 05 '14 at 15:49
I answered a shorter version, then added the code afterwards. Sorry. — matiash, May 05 '14 at 15:53
Its ok @matiash ..I just pointed out..No need for sry and all..any way i'l upvote your answer too.. — Lal, May 05 '14 at 15:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Try the answer in this link..It says

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

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 05 '14 at 15:26

-1

Copy/Paste Offical Tutoiral Check it out

Relative Code :

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager)
    getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
Copy the data to a new ClipData object:
For text

// Creates a new text clip to put on the clipboard
 ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("simple text","Hello, World!");

answered May 05 '14 at 15:26

Please include relevant information from the link you provided. – JW Lim May 05 '14 at 15:27

Copy Text of a Text Field

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