How to intercept system-wide "copy to clipboard" event in Android

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23110402

  •  04-07-2023
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Question

I have a service running in background. Is there a way for it to intercept global clipboard events?

In particular, I'd like to be notified when the user copies something into the clipboard.

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Solution

The necessary classes can be found in android.content.ClipboardManager. Use the OnPrimaryClipChangedListener interface to create a listener, and the addPrimaryClipChangedListener() method to set it as a listener.

Please note that it is android.content.ClipboardManager, and not android.text.ClipboardManager, which is the old text-only version which was deprecated in API Level 11.

android.content.ClipboardManager docs

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