Android: Copy to clipboard selected text from a TextView

Question

Is there a possibility to copy to clipboard from a TextView UI component only the selected text?

I\'ve catched the long press event and I copied the full text to cli

Answer 1

you can do it this way:

ClipboardManager myClipboard = myClipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE);
ClipData myClip;
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText3);
int min = 0;
int max = editText.getText().length();
if (editText.isFocused()) {
    final int selStart = editText.getSelectionStart();
    final int selEnd = editText.getSelectionEnd();
    min = Math.max(0, Math.min(selStart, selEnd));
    max = Math.max(0, Math.max(selStart, selEnd));
}
// here is your selected text
final CharSequence selectedText = editText.getText().subSequence(min, max);
String text = selectedText.toString();


// copy to clipboard
myClip = ClipData.newPlainText("text", text);
myClipboard.setPrimaryClip(myClip);

Replace EditText with TextView