Add custom action on clipboard option

Question

I want to add option on clipboard like Chrome has when we select URL

Is it possible to add option of my application in Clipboard?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't know anything about Xamarin. But in native Android it's done in this way.
Add an intent filter to an Activity in your manifest:

<activity
    android:name=".ProcessTextActivity"
    android:label="@string/process_text_action_name">

    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.PROCESS_TEXT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Text from android:label will be shown in context menu

It's described in details in this Android developers blog post

Another question on the same topic: How to use the new Android M feature of "Text Selection" to be offered from outside of your app?

Answer 2

For each TextView you want to customize the menu you need to pass your own android.view.ActionMode.Callback to TextView.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback function.

In your implementation of android.view.ActionMode.Callback you are free to add/edit/remove items as you wish.

UPDATE: Didn’t realize that this issue is on Xamarin platform. I guess the answer should be similar.