Question

I just discovered that this code goes to crash my app only on android 2.x

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
clipboard.setText(textView1.getText());

I think… I need add check android version before run this method, which is correct code to permit runs also on android 2.x?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Clipboard API has changed on level 11 of Android SDK. Here is some code to handle both versions from arinkverma.

I hope this can get into support library one day.

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@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public void putText(String text){
    int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if(sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES. HONEYCOMB) {
        android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        clipboard.setText(text);
    } else {
        android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
        android.content.ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("simple text",text);
        clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
    }
}

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public String getText(){
    String text = null;
    int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if(sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES. HONEYCOMB ) {
        android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        text =  clipboard.getText().toString();
    } else {
        android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
        text =  clipboard.getText().toString();
    }
    return text;
}