How come items I put on the clipboard don't show up on the SwiftKey clipboard history?

Question

I'm using this code to put items on the clipboard and it works fine, apps can paste what I put there just fine, but SwiftKey never shows on their history what I put on the clipboard. What am I doing wrong?

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context.
                getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        if (clipboard != null) {
            ClipData clip = ClipData.newRawUri("URL", Uri.parse(url));
            if (clip != null) {
                clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
            } else {
                Log.w(TAG, "Failed to copy to clipboard");
            }
        } else {
            Log.w(TAG, "Unexpected error because clipboard is null");
        }

Edit: Made a sample project just to test it and still failed:

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        val clipboard: ClipboardManager =
            getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
        if (clipboard != null) {
            val clip = ClipData.newRawUri("URL", Uri.parse("http://google.com"))
            if (clip != null) {
                clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip)
            } else {
                Log.w("MainActivity", "Failed to copy to clipboard")
            }
        } else {
            Log.w("MainActivity", "Unexpected error because clipboard is null")
        }
    }
}

I can paste just fine but here is what SwiftKey shows:

I complied with `API 29` and tested it on `Android 9` with `SwiftKey version 7.4.6.6`. It worked fine. Could you please share more details? — Mir Milad Hosseiny, Jan 20 '20 at 23:10
Thanks for doing that, but that is all there is to the code. Did you try it with a url? maybe you can share your code. I'm editing the post to show a sample project I just made and still have the issue. — casolorz, Jan 21 '20 at 15:26
I'm sorry. I checked my code and figured out I tried with `newPlainText` method. — Mir Milad Hosseiny, Jan 21 '20 at 16:17
Wonder if url just doesn't work, maybe I need to switch to plain text. Can't see much harm on that, it is just a clipboard. — casolorz, Jan 21 '20 at 17:10
I just tested and `newPlainText()` shows up fine so I can just use that. If you want to make it an answer I can mark it as correct. — casolorz, Jan 24 '20 at 21:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '20 at 22:05

Use ClipData.newPlainText() method instead of ClipData.newRawUri() method. So your code could be as below:

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        val clipboard: ClipboardManager =
            getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
        if (clipboard != null) {
            val clip = ClipData.newPlainText("URL", "http://google.com")
            if (clip != null) {
                clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip)
            } else {
                Log.w("MainActivity", "Failed to copy to clipboard")
            }
        } else {
            Log.w("MainActivity", "Unexpected error because clipboard is null")
        }
    }
}

How come items I put on the clipboard don't show up on the SwiftKey clipboard history?

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