Copy texts from android

Android Copy and Paste Text Example

May 14, 2017 by Srinivas

Copy and paste text functionality in android app can be implemented using android clipboard framework. User can copy text in one app which allows selecting and copying of text and paste it in any other app which implements paste functionality using clipboard framework.

Copy and paste actions can be displayed as floating action bar (contextual action mode). When user selects text in an app which implements clipboard framework, contextual action mode can be displayed showing copy and paste actions. I’ll explain what we need to do to use contextual action mode for showing copy and past actions.

In this post, I’ll show how to implement copy and paste text with floating bar.

Copy and Paste Example Screen

To show select, copy and paste text functionality, we will use text view. This example layout has two text views, first text view is used to show select and copy text functionality and second one is used to paste the copied text from the first text view.

Displaying Copy and Paste Actions on Selecting of Text

One of the steps in implementing copy and paste functionality is identifying text selection event, and displaying copy and paste actions. As mentioned, we are going to show copy and paste actions in contextual action mode.

For this, first thing we need to do is to make text in text view selectable. You can do so by using setTextIsSelectable method of text view.

To display contextual action mode, you need to implement ActionMode.Callback and call activity’s startActionMode() method passing ActionMode.Callback object. To display floating contextual action mode, you need to pass, in addition to ActionMode.Callback object, action mode type ActionMode.TYPE_FLOATING to startActionMode method.

Usually, startActionMode() method is called in response to user actions to display contextual action mode. But for copy and paste text functionality, it should be displayed when user selects text. TextView widget takes care of handling text selection and showing contextual action mode with default actions if text selection is enabled.

If you want to remove default actions from context menu, add your own actions to context menu, and handle click events, you can do so by implementing ActionMode.Callback and passing ActionMode.Callback object to TextView by calling setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback method on text view.

ActionMode Callback Implementation

First you need to define menu items in menu.xml and keep it in res/menu folder.

Implement ActionMode.Callback’s onCreateActionMode method and inflate menu to add menu items to floating context menu. As mentioned above, you can remove menu items which are created by TextView’s default ActionMode.Callback implementation.

Implement onActionItemClicked method to handle click events of menu items in the context menu.

Copying and Adding Text to Clipboard

The main steps which need to be performed in response to copy button click event in the onActionItemClicked method of ActionMode.Callback object are capturing user selected text and then setting it to android clipboard.

To get user selected text, you can use TextView’s getSelectionStart and getSelectionEnd methods shown below. To set user selected text to clipboard, first get ClipboardManager, then create ClibData object using newPlainText method of ClibData and finally set ClibData to clipboard by calling setPrimaryClip method on ClipboardManager passing ClibData.

Reading Text from Clipboard and Paste

When user clicks paste action, the behavior that should be added in onActionItemClicked method of ActionMode.Callback object is to read ClibData from clibboard by calling getPrimaryClip() method on ClipboardManager and then set the data to TextView widget to show it on the screen where paste action was clicked.

Disabling Paste Action

When there is no data on the clipboard, it is a good practice to disable the paste action. To find out whether data exists on clipboard or not, call hasPrimaryClip method on clipboardManager.

ClipboardManager PrimaryClipChangedListener

If your app needs to listen to changes on the clipboard, you can do so by implementing ClipboardManager.OnPrimaryClipChangedListener and adding the listener to clipboard by calling addPrimaryClipChangedListener method on ClipboardManager. ClipboardManager.OnPrimaryClipChangedListener has one method onPrimaryClipChanged which gets called when there is a change to primary clip.

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How to Copy Text from Android Apps that Don’t Even Let You Select Them

Abhishek Macwan

31 Mar 2016

Did you ever want to copy that one comment on a YouTube video, from your Android, that was so funny? But couldn’t? Nothing from the official YouTube app can be copied. Same is the case for Play Store and other Google Apps. So, today I’d like to show you how you can easily copy-paste text from such apps that won’t let you copy it to your clipboard.

Those really interesting comments.

We had previously shared on how to perform some advanced tasks with the text you copy. Text Aide, the app in the article, provided a kind of similar functionality but in a different way and didn’t work sometimes. The app I’ll talk about today works perfectly and easily does what it claims.

Universal Copy

The official Android apps of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social networking service don’t let you copy the text. Speaking programmatically, such text is called TextView. They can’t be edited or copied since native support isn’t provided.

Universal Copy is the Android app that will let you copy such TextView texts. Using it is very simple, you just need to enable it and you’re good to go. You need to give accessibility permission to let it inspect the content that is in the current window.

After you’ve enabled you can test it in YouTube or Facebook or any such app that won’t let you copy text. But, before you do so you need to activate the Copy Mode on the specific window from which you want to copy text. You should get a sticky notification of Universal Copy to activate the copy mode. So, whenever you want to copy from some text, you need to activate it.

Above I selected text from Play Store. You can further hit on the Pencil icon to edit it and select specific text. Below, I copied a YouTube comment. You just have to tap on the specific area.

It even worked on the official Google Search app. The app in which it didn’t work was Google Playstand. It couldn’t select text from the articles. It seems like Google has paid attention to such apps and has taken necessary steps to keep publishers content unique.

Extend it’s Usage

There are not many options available along with copied text. Well, the app developer has another app called Easy Copy that lets you perform different actions with copied text. For example, if you copied a phone number then you can perform the action to save the number or call it directly. We had shared about it before.

Also, you can further use Clipboard Manager like Clipper that will let you manage your copied text and save them for them future use.

Last updated on 8 Feb, 2018
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How to Copy Text Messages from Android to Computer

Nowadays, you can make calls, send & receive SMS, take pictures, record videos and many other things with a single Android smartphone. More importantly, Android phone is acting more like a mass storage, keeping all your previous data, such as contacts, SMS, photos and so on. However, how can you transfer your information like SMS from Android to PC for much more safely? In case of data loss, copy text messages from Android device to the computer is pretty necessary.

Thanks to TunesGo , a professional and easy-to-use program, you can easily transfer from Android to PC all by yourself. With the Android Manager, you are also permitted to backup everything besides SMS to PC with 1 simple click and retain 100% quality. So, it is truly an effective data manager for your Android device. Now, follow the easy guide below and get more about how to transfer or copy SMS from Android to PC.

How to Transfer SMS from Android to Computer

Step 1 Download and Install TunesGo
To begin with, download and install Android Manager on your PC. Launch the program.

Step 2 Connect your Android to PC
Connect your Android phone to computer, and you can see your device showing up in an interface as below.

Note: TunesGo supports almost all Android phone types available in the market, such as HTC/Google/Motorola/Samsung/Sony Ericsson.

Step 3 Export Android SMS to PC
You can see your device’s name to your left. Expand it and go to «Information«, and select SMS option, all detailed text messages will be shown on the right in the window. Selectively check the ones you want to copy to your computer, and click «Export» on the top menu bar. Now, your messages are saved to your computer in .csv or html format.

Besides transferring Android text messages to PC, This TunesGo tool also allows you to transfer SMS between Android. What’s more, you can delete messages directly on the computer with it. Also, you can manage messages with edit, view, export, print functions on your PC. Sounds amazing, isn’t it? Come and try it out right now.

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