How to Copy Text to Clip Board in Android?

Can anybody please tell me how to copy the text present in a particular textview to clipboard when a button is pressed?

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
	super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
	setContentView(R.layout.mainpage);
	textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
	copyText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bCopy);
	copyText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
		@Override
		public void onClick(View v) {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
			
			ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
			String getstring = textView.getText().toString();
			
			// Help to continue :)
		}
	});
}

I want to copy the Text in TextView textView to clipboard when the Button bCopy is pressed.

use ClipboardManager

 ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
 ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText(label, text);
 clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);

make sure you have imported android.content.ClipboardManager and NOT android.text.ClipboardManager. Latter is deprecated. Check this link for Further information.

Here the method to copy text to clipboard:

private void setClipboard(Context context, String text) {
  if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
    android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
    clipboard.setText(text);
  } else {
    android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
    android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Copied Text", text);
    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
  }
}

This method is working on all android devices.

Yesterday I made this class. Take it, it's for all API Levels

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.ClipData;
import android.content.ClipboardManager;
import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.AssetFileDescriptor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.util.Log;
import de.lochmann.nsafirewall.R;

public class MyClipboardManager {

	@SuppressLint("NewApi")
	@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
	public boolean copyToClipboard(Context context, String text) {
		try {
			int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
			if (sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
				android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) context
						.getSystemService(context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
				clipboard.setText(text);
			} else {
				android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) context
						.getSystemService(context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
				android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData
						.newPlainText(
								context.getResources().getString(
										R.string.message), text);
				clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
			}
			return true;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			return false;
		}
	}

	@SuppressLint("NewApi")
	public String readFromClipboard(Context context) {
		int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
		if (sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
			android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) context
					.getSystemService(context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
			return clipboard.getText().toString();
		} else {
			ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context
					.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);

			// Gets a content resolver instance
			ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();

			// Gets the clipboard data from the clipboard
			ClipData clip = clipboard.getPrimaryClip();
			if (clip != null) {

				String text = null;
				String title = null;

				// Gets the first item from the clipboard data
				ClipData.Item item = clip.getItemAt(0);

				// Tries to get the item's contents as a URI pointing to a note
				Uri uri = item.getUri();

				// If the contents of the clipboard wasn't a reference to a
				// note, then
				// this converts whatever it is to text.
				if (text == null) {
					text = coerceToText(context, item).toString();
				}

				return text;
			}
		}
		return "";
	}

	@SuppressLint("NewApi")
	public CharSequence coerceToText(Context context, ClipData.Item item) {
		// If this Item has an explicit textual value, simply return that.
		CharSequence text = item.getText();
		if (text != null) {
			return text;
		}

		// If this Item has a URI value, try using that.
		Uri uri = item.getUri();
		if (uri != null) {

			// First see if the URI can be opened as a plain text stream
			// (of any sub-type). If so, this is the best textual
			// representation for it.
			FileInputStream stream = null;
			try {
				// Ask for a stream of the desired type.
				AssetFileDescriptor descr = context.getContentResolver()
						.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(uri, "text/*", null);
				stream = descr.createInputStream();
				InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(stream,
						"UTF-8");

				// Got it... copy the stream into a local string and return it.
				StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(128);
				char[] buffer = new char[8192];
				int len;
				while ((len = reader.read(buffer)) > 0) {
					builder.append(buffer, 0, len);
				}
				return builder.toString();

			} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
				// Unable to open content URI as text... not really an
				// error, just something to ignore.

			} catch (IOException e) {
				// Something bad has happened.
				Log.w("ClippedData", "Failure loading text", e);
				return e.toString();

			} finally {
				if (stream != null) {
					try {
						stream.close();
					} catch (IOException e) {
					}
				}
			}

			// If we couldn't open the URI as a stream, then the URI itself
			// probably serves fairly well as a textual representation.
			return uri.toString();
		}

		// Finally, if all we have is an Intent, then we can just turn that
		// into text. Not the most user-friendly thing, but it's something.
		Intent intent = item.getIntent();
		if (intent != null) {
			return intent.toUri(Intent.URI_INTENT_SCHEME);
		}

		// Shouldn't get here, but just in case...
		return "";
	}

}

As a handy kotlin extension:

fun Context.copyToClipboard(text: CharSequence){
    val clipboard = getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
    val clip = ClipData.newPlainText("label",text)
    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip)
}

Update:

If you using ContextCompat you should use:

ContextCompat.getSystemService(this, ClipboardManager::class.java)

For Jetpack Compose

val localClipboardManager = LocalClipboardManager.current
localClipboardManager.setText(AnnotatedString("Your text here"))

Just use this. It works only for android api >= 11 before that you'll have to use a ClipData.

ClipboardManager _clipboard = (ClipboardManager) _activity.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
_clipboard.setText(YOUR TEXT);

Hope it helped you :)

[UPDATE 3/19/2015] Just like Ujjwal Singh said it the method setText is deprecated now, you should use, just as the docs recommande it, setPrimaryClip(clipData)

This can be done in Kotlin like this:

var clipboard = getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
var clip = ClipData.newPlainText("label", file.readText())
clipboard.setPrimaryClip = clip

Where file.readText() is your input string.

use this code

   private ClipboardManager myClipboard;
   private ClipData myClip;
   TextView textView;
   Button copyText;
    
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.mainpage);
    textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
    copyText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bCopy);
    myClipboard = (ClipboardManager)getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);

    copyText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {


        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
   

           String text = textView.getText().toString();
           myClip = ClipData.newPlainText("text", text);
           myClipboard.setPrimaryClip(myClip);
           Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Text Copied", 
           Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
        }
    });
}

Kotlin extension function 2021:

fun Context.copyToClipboard(text: CharSequence){
    val clipboard = ContextCompat.getSystemService(this,ClipboardManager::class.java)
    clipboard?.setPrimaryClip(ClipData.newPlainText("",text))
}

use this function for copy to clipboard

public void copyToClipboard(String copyText) {
    int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if (sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
        android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager)
                getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        clipboard.setText(copyText);
    } else {
        android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager)
                getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData
                .newPlainText("Your OTP", copyText);
        clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
    }
    Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
            "Your OTP is copied", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
    toast.setGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM | Gravity.RIGHT, 50, 50);
    toast.show();
    //displayAlert("Your OTP is copied");
}

@SuppressLint({ "NewApi", "NewApi", "NewApi", "NewApi" })
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
@TargetApi(11)
public void onClickCopy(View v) {	// User-defined onClick Listener
	int sdk_Version = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
	if(sdk_Version < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
	    android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
	    clipboard.setText(textView.getText().toString());	// Assuming that you are copying the text from a TextView
	    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Copied to Clipboard!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
	}
	else { 
	    android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
	    android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Text Label", textView.getText().toString());
	    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
	    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Copied to Clipboard!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
	} 	
}

use this method:

 ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
 ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText(label, text);
 clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);

at the place of setPrimaryClip we can also use the following methods:

void	clearPrimaryClip()

Clears any current primary clip on the clipboard.

ClipData	getPrimaryClip()

Returns the current primary clip on the clipboard.

ClipDescription	getPrimaryClipDescription()

Returns a description of the current primary clip on the clipboard but not a copy of its data.

CharSequence	getText()

This method is deprecated. Use getPrimaryClip() instead. This retrieves the primary clip and tries to coerce it to a string.

boolean	hasPrimaryClip()

Returns true if there is currently a primary clip on the clipboard.

With Jetpack Compose, it's really easy:

AmbientClipboardManager.current.setText(AnnotatedString("Copied Text"))

Simple and Easy Android Using Java.

copytext.setOnClickListener(v -> {
            ClipboardManager myClipboard;
            myClipboard = (ClipboardManager)getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
            ClipData myClip;
            String Text = "Hello World!";
            myClip = ClipData.newPlainText("text", Text);
            myClipboard.setPrimaryClip(myClip);

            Toast.makeText(this, "Copy", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        });

int sdk = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;

	if (sdk < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
		android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager) DetailView.this
				.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
		clipboard.setText("" + yourMessage.toString());
		Toast.makeText(AppCstVar.getAppContext(),
				"" + getResources().getString(R.string.txt_copiedtoclipboard),
				Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
	} else {
		android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) DetailView.this
				.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
		android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData
				.newPlainText("message", "" + yourMessage.toString());
		clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
		Toast.makeText(AppCstVar.getAppContext(),
				"" + getResources().getString(R.string.txt_copiedtoclipboard),
				Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
	}

    String stringYouExtracted = referraltxt.getText().toString();
    android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
    android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Copied Text", stringYouExtracted);

clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Copy coupon code copied to clickboard!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    import android.content.ClipData
    import android.content.ClipboardManager
    import android.content.Context

    val clipboardManager = getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
    clipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(ClipData.newPlainText("text","this is copied...paste it" ))

 ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
 ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText(label, text);
 clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);

Simple Kotlin Extension Function for Copying Text to Clipboard

fun Context.copyToClipboard(clipLabel: String, text: CharSequence){
    val clipboard = ContextCompat.getSystemService(this, ClipboardManager::class.java)
    clipboard?.setPrimaryClip(ClipData.newPlainText(clipLabel, text))

    toast("Copied $clipLabel")
}

If you want to copy text from edittext So First Create Edittext

    EditText mResultEt = findViewById(R.id.resultEt);

then Create One Button on which after clicking we can copy these text

    ImageButton copyClipBoard = findViewById(R.id.btn_copy);

then use the listener of the button

Java

copyClipBoard.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                ClipboardManager clipboardManager = (ClipboardManager)
                        getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
                ClipData clipData = ClipData.newPlainText("nonsense_data",
                        mResultEt.getText().toString());
                clipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(clipData);
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, R.string.copied_to_clipboard, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });

Kotlin

btn1.setOnClickListener{
            val clipboardManager = getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
            val clipData = ClipData.newPlainText(
                "nonsense_data",
                content_et.getText().toString()
            )
            clipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(clipData)
            Toast.makeText(this@MainActivity, R.string.copied_to_clipboard, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

        }

and make sure to import this

import android.content.ClipboardManager;

don't import this one

android.text.ClipboardManager

Try the following code. It will support the latest API:

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
                        if (clipboard.hasPrimaryClip()) {
                            android.content.ClipDescription description = clipboard.getPrimaryClipDescription();
                            android.content.ClipData data = clipboard.getPrimaryClip();
                            if (data != null && description != null && description.hasMimeType(ClipDescription.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN))
                            {
                                String url= (String) clipboard.getText();
                                searchText.setText(url);
                                System.out.println("data="+data+"description="+description+"url="+url);
                            }}

Kotlin helper method to attach click to copy Texts on a TextView

Put this method somewhere in Util class. This method attach click listener on textview to Copy Content of textView to a clipText on click of that textView

/**
 * Param:  cliplabel, textview, context
 */
fun attachClickToCopyText(textView: TextView?, clipLabel: String, context: Context?) {
    if (textView != null && null != context) {
        textView.setOnClickListener {
            val clipboard = context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
            val clip = ClipData.newPlainText(clipLabel, textView!!.text)
            clipboard.primaryClip = clip
            Snackbar.make(textView,
                    "Copied $clipLabel", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show()
        }
    }

}

You can perform this copy to clipboard function when onclick button event. so put these code lines inside your button onClickListerner

android.content.ClipboardManager clipboardManager = (android.content.ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
android.content.ClipData clipData = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Text Label", ViewPass.getText().toString());
clipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(clipData);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Copied from Clipboard!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

In Kotlin I have an extension for this

fun Context.copyToClipboard(text: String) {
  val clipboard = getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager
  val clip =
    ClipData.newPlainText(getString(R.string.copy_clipboard_label, getString(R.string.app_name)),text)
  clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip)
}

For copy any text in Android:

            TextView text = findViewById(R.id.text_id);
            ImageView icons = findViewById(R.id.copy_icon);

            icons.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    ClipboardManager clipboardManager = (ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
                    ClipData clipData = ClipData.newPlainText("text whatever you want", text.getText().toString());
                    clipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(clipData);

                    Toast.makeText(context, "Text Copied", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            });

to search clip board list first get the clipboard object like this :

private val clipboard = context.getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE) as ClipboardManager

then check if there is any data in clip board by this function :

fun isClipboardContainsData() : Boolean{
        return when{
            !clipboard.hasPrimaryClip() -> false
            else -> true
        }
    }

then use this function to go through the clipboard object like below:

fun searchClipboard() : ClipData.Item? {
        return if (isClipboardContainsData()){

            val items = clipboard.primaryClip
            val clipboardSize = items?.itemCount ?: 0
            for (i in 0..clipboardSize) {
                val item = items?.getItemAt(i)
                return if (item != null){
                       return item
                }else
                    null
            }
            return null
        }else
            null

    }

here you can see that the searchClipboard Item will return an item of type ClipData.Item, the clipboard contains a list of ClipData.Item and if you go through implementation of clipboard this is what you will find about ClipData.Item:

public static class Item {
    final CharSequence mText;
    final String mHtmlText;
    final Intent mIntent;
    @UnsupportedAppUsage(maxTargetSdk = Build.VERSION_CODES.P, trackingBug = 115609023)
    Uri mUri;
}

so what you can hold in a clipboard item could be of type:

1. CharSequence
2. String
3. Intent(this supports copying application shortcuts)
4. Uri (for copying complex data from a content provider)

If you want to make it shorter use:

ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText(label, text);
((ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE)).setPrimaryClip(clip);

==> Its too Easy to Copy Content on the click of View.

-> Store Text into String variable.

-> Make Variable of ClipboardManager

-> Make Variable of ClipData

-> must imported from the package as " android.content."

-> set clip into clipboard.setPrimaryclick.

-> done.

ex.

import android.content.ClipboardManager;

import android.content.ClipData;





    stringNodetxt.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {

            String stringNodeCopied= stringNodetxt.getText().toString();

            ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
            ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("Copied", stringNodeCopied);

            clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "copied to clipboard!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });

Just write this code:

clipboard.setText(getstring);