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I am thinking of making an app for android in which if I select a word in any other app in android phone then a strip come above it. In this strip there is a button named meaning if user click on this button, then its meaning come as a pop-up or in form of notification. These meaning will come from a database of dictionary which will be provided with app.

I just want to know how to change accessibility settings of phone so that if any word is selected anywhere in the phone, strip with meaning button come.

Abhishek Bhatia
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  • Your app must be signed with the same key used to sign the firmware Apps. As your requirement seems you want to make system app. – Manish Dubey Mar 04 '14 at 10:47

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That's a great idea, but I've never seen anything with that capability on stock androids--AFAIK, spell checkers are based in the OS, so I'd check those implementations out. I'm doubtful that--as you describe it--it's even possible to do this in the traditional sense of apps, but would encourage you to look into the modding scene, where it is totally possible--consider cyanogenmod and the AOSP if you are interested in that sort of thing.

Love to be proven wrong on this.

anthropic android
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You could create a clipboard broadcast receiver:

Create a clipboard receiver

Also have a look at this project as well.

example project

Also keep this in mind: Since there is now Action intent for clipboard, what you will need to do is create a broadcast receiver to start when your app is started on when the device first boots up. And then start a service to monitor the state of the clipboard.

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Dan Cuc
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  • Facing issue with creating virtual table. Please see this question [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22618432/using-virtual-table-to-make-database-in-android] – Abhishek Bhatia Mar 24 '14 at 19:18