How to Copy Text to Clip Board in Android?

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 "";    }}