Listener for clipboard content change?

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Is there a way to register a method so that it's automatically called as soon as the user ends "text selection mode" (thereby copying selection to clipboard)?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '11 at 19:37

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I think you're looking for ClipboardManager.addPrimaryClipChangedListener().

Edit - this is for Android 3.0, and I don't see any other clipboard-related apis in the earlier levels.

Also see the ClipboardManager docs in the copy and paste guide.

answered Mar 07 '11 at 19:37

Matthew

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I think you're right. :) Unfortunately, it's only available from API level 11. I need something that would work at least on Android 2.2 (API level 8). http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html#level11 Nevertheless, your answer is the correct one and so I am going to accept it, although I would love to see other suggestions that somehow work on API level 8 (polling?) – Regex Rookie Mar 07 '11 at 19:42

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '12 at 01:11

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I need the exact same functionality. For the moment I'm solving this with android.text.ClipboardManager and a java Timer that checks every second if the clipboard-text has changed.

answered May 08 '12 at 01:11

Jules Colle

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can you give few inputs on how you did this with a Timer ? – user2234 Jun 23 '14 at 11:27

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 19:36

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If you are using Android 3.0 you can add a listener with ClipboardManager.addPrimaryClipChangedListener().

answered Mar 07 '11 at 19:36

Robby Pond

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It triggers the callback even if same text is copied again and again. Can you listen only when copied text is different than before? – Usman Rana Dec 24 '20 at 09:43

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