Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Think of a scenario any application is running, and the user selected some text on that application’s activity screen. I want to grab that selected text through a service running in the background and process that text in the service. Text can be selected from any application like SMS, browser, or contacts from anywhere.
Can anyone show me the way to grab the text?
You can’t grab the selected text, but i think it’s possible for the text which is copied in the clipboard.
See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ClipboardManager.html and getPrimaryClip ()