How to Copy Text Programmatically in My Android App

How to copy text programmatically in my Android app?

Use ClipboardManager#setPrimaryClip method:

import android.content.ClipboardManager;

// ...

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("label", "Text to copy");
clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);

ClipboardManager API reference

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.

how to copy a text to the Clipboard in android

Use ClipboardManager

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("text to clip");
} else {
    android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager) getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
    android.content.ClipData clip = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("text label","text to clip");
    clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
}

Button to copy the value of a string to the clipboard

If it is just Text, it is very simple.

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

For further Information check out this link

Copy Text of a Text Field

Honeycomb deprecated android.text.ClipboardManager and introduced android.content.ClipboardManager.

You should check whether android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT is at least android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB and therefore use one or the other.

    if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
    {
        // Old clibpoard
        android.text.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.text.ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        clipboard.setText("the text");
    } 
    else
    {
        android.content.ClipboardManager clipboard = (android.content.ClipboardManager)getSystemService(Context.CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
        android.content.ClipData clipData = android.content.ClipData.newPlainText("PlainText", "the text");
        clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clipData);
    }       

Select and copy text in a TextView Android

Ok so, I found the problem by myself, I wasn't able to select because i have a

setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

I tried to delete this one and it's work.
Thx for ur help

Copy text from TextView on Android

I think I have a solution.
Just call

registerForContextMenu(yourTextView);

and your TextView will be registered for receiving context menu events.

Then override onCreateContextMenu in your Activity:

@Override
public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v, ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
    //user has long pressed your TextView
    menu.add(0, v.getId(), 0, "text that you want to show in the context menu - I use simply Copy");

    //cast the received View to TextView so that you can get its text
    TextView yourTextView = (TextView) v;

    //place your TextView's text in clipboard
    ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
    clipboard.setText(yourTextView.getText());
}

Hope this helps you and anyone else looking for a way to copy text from a TextView

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