Question

Is there a possibility to copy to clipboard from a TextView UI component only the selected text?

I’ve catched the long press event and I copied the full text to clipboard, but now I want to specify the start and the end of the selection to be copied from a TextView.

Thank you.

Answer 1

TextView tv;
String stringYouExtracted = tv.getText().toString();
int startIndex = tv.getSelectionStart();
int endIndex = tv.getSelectionEnd();
stringYouExtracted = stringYouExtracted.subString(startIndex, endIndex);
ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
clipboard.setText(stringYouExtracted);

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EDIT (The previous is the full answer, but I ran into my answer by mistake so I would like to add):

With Newer APIs, change the last two lines to :

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

"Copied Text" is a title for your COPY entity in newer APIS