Implement Copy to Clipboard button in Android App

In this post, I will show you how to create a button called Copy to Clipboard in your Android app.

For that, We use an EditText for text selection and copy and a Button to copy the text to Clipboard.

In our MainActivity.XML file, we create an EditText and Button.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
 <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
   xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"  
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  
   android:layout_width="match_parent"  
   android:layout_height="match_parent"  
   tools:context=".MainActivity">  
   <EditText  
     android:layout_width="match_parent"  
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
     android:id="@+id/Edittext"  
     app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"  
     app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"  
     app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"  
     app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />  
   <Button  
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
     android:text="copy"  
     android:id="@+id/Button"  
     app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/Edittext"/>  
 </androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>  

 In this, we use EditText to get value and a Button to Copy that value to Clipboard.


MainActivity.java

 public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  
   EditText et;  
   Button btn;  
   @Override  
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  
     setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);  
     et = findViewById(R.id.Edittext);  
     btn = findViewById(R.id.Button);  
     btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {  
       @Override  
       public void onClick(View view) {  
         String copy = et.getText().toString();  
         ClipboardManager clipmanager = (ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);  
         ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("Label",copy);  
         clipmanager.setPrimaryClip(clip);  
         Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Copied to Clipboard", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
       }  
     });  
   }  
 }  

In this, we find ids of EditText and Button.

Then click on Button will get value from EditText and then call Clipboard Manager to copy that text.

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