Flutter (Dart) How to add copy to clipboard on tap to a app?

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I'm a beginner to Flutter and I just started following their Name Generator app tutorial and made a simple name generating app. I'm wondering if it's possible to add copy to clipboard feature when a user tap on a name? I tried to implement a solution I found on stack but it didn't work. My full code is here. Any advise is appreciated.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:english_words/english_words.dart';

void main() => runApp(new MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'Startup Name Generator',
      home: new RandomWords(),
    );
  }
}

class RandomWords extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  RandomWordsState createState() => new RandomWordsState();
}

class RandomWordsState extends State<RandomWords> {
  final List<WordPair> _suggestions = <WordPair>[];
  final Set<WordPair> _saved = new Set<WordPair>();
  final TextStyle _biggerFont = const TextStyle(fontSize: 18.0);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(
        title: const Text('Startup Name Generator'),
        actions: <Widget>[
          new IconButton(icon: const Icon(Icons.list), onPressed: _pushSaved),
        ],
      ),
      body: _buildSuggestions(),
    );
  }

  Widget _buildSuggestions() {
    return new ListView.builder(
        padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
        itemBuilder: (BuildContext _context, int i) {
          if (i.isOdd) {
            return const Divider();
          }
          final int index = i ~/ 2;
          if (index >= _suggestions.length) {
            _suggestions.addAll(generateWordPairs().take(10));
          }
          return _buildRow(_suggestions[index]);
        });
  }

  Widget _buildRow(WordPair pair) {
    final bool alreadySaved = _saved.contains(pair);

    return new ListTile(
      title: new Text(
        pair.asPascalCase,
        style: _biggerFont,
      ),
      trailing: new Icon(
        alreadySaved ? Icons.favorite : Icons.favorite_border,
        color: alreadySaved ? Colors.red : null,
      ),
      onTap: () {
        setState(() {
          if (alreadySaved) {
            _saved.remove(pair);
          } else {
            _saved.add(pair);
          }
        });
      },
    );
  }

  void _pushSaved() {
    Navigator.of(context).push(
      new MaterialPageRoute<void>(
        builder: (BuildContext context) {
          final Iterable<ListTile> tiles = _saved.map(
                (WordPair pair) {
              return new ListTile(
                title: new Text(
                  pair.asPascalCase,
                  style: _biggerFont,
                ),
              );
            },
          );
          final List<Widget> divided = ListTile
              .divideTiles(
            context: context,
            tiles: tiles,
          )
              .toList();
          return new Scaffold(
            appBar: new AppBar(
              title: const Text('Saved Suggestions'),
            ),
            body: new ListView(children: divided),
          );

        },
      ),
    );
  }
}

Dart Solutions


Solution 1 - Dart

import:

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

And then Simply implement this:

onTap: () {
  Clipboard.setData(ClipboardData(text: "your text"));
},

Solution 2 - Dart

If you want better solution without any dependency that working async use this:

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

Clipboard.setData(ClipboardData(text: email)).then((_){
    ScaffoldMessenger.of(context).showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text("Email address copied to clipboard")));
});

There was breaking changes that you might find useful in the following link: https://docs.flutter.dev/release/breaking-changes/scaffold-messenger

Solution 3 - Dart

You can use the Flutter clipboard_manager package: Flutter clipboard manager

To install it, follow the instructions on this page, pretty straightforward: Flutter clipboard manager installation process

To use it, import it in the .dart file you're writing and then you can use this: ClipboardManager.copyToClipBoard("your text to copy")

Where "your text to copy" can be substituted by any string you want to copy to the clipboard.

If you want to create a snackbar after copying the text, since it's async you can do:

ClipboardManager.copyToClipBoard("your text to copy").then((result) {
                        final snackBar = SnackBar(
                          content: Text('Copied to Clipboard'),
                          action: SnackBarAction(
                            label: 'Undo',
                            onPressed: () {},
                          ),
                        );
                        Scaffold.of(context).showSnackBar(snackBar);
                      });

Adendum: If you look at the package source code what it basically does is this:

Clipboard.setData(ClipboardData(text: "your text to copy"));

However, I find that the extra bit of syntactic sugar and the advantage of being async makes it a better solution, nothing you can't do with vanilla Flutter, but I find it a bit better.

Solution 4 - Dart

You can use this below code without adding any plugins & notify the user:

Notifying user by Scaffold.of(context).showSnackBar(snackBar); is deprecated so use below updated code.

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

Clipboard.setData(new ClipboardData(text: "Your Copy text")).then((_){
   ScaffoldMessenger.of(context)
.showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text('Copied to your clipboard !')));
});

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