Question

I’m building an Android app and I want to copy the text value of an EditText widget. It’s possible for the user to press Menu+A then Menu+C to copy the value, but how would I do this programmatically?

Answer 1

Use ClipboardManager#setPrimaryClip method:

import android.content.ClipboardManager;  // ...  ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);  ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText('label', 'Text to copy'); clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip); 

ClipboardManager API reference