# Copy text to clipboard

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177
**Category:** Processing for Android
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177 "2019-09-24T17:47:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Alex\_Pr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Alex\_Pr](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Alex_Pr)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/1 "2019-09-24T17:47:22Z")

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How can I copy a String to Clipboard (similar to Clipboard’s setContent() in java)?

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### Author: ![benja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@benja](https://discourse.processing.org/u/benja)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/2 "2019-09-25T08:35:07Z")

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Hey,

processing is java. So you can use the same classes. Here is an adapted sketch from an example from [this page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11596368/set-clipboard-contents).

```auto
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;

void setup() {
  StringSelection selection = new StringSelection("some text");
  Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
  clipboard.setContents(selection, selection);
  exit();
}

Regards.

```

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### Author: ![akenaton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@akenaton](https://discourse.processing.org/u/akenaton)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/3 "2019-09-25T14:42:07Z")

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@Alex_Pr , @benja ===  
Android is java, yes, but it has its own world and in this world i dont think that the code put by @benja can work… For doing that you have to use android ClipboardManager. More details here: [https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/copy-paste](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/copy-paste)

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### Author: ![Malsvir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Malsvir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Malsvir)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/4 "2020-05-05T00:02:03Z")

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where can I find those libraries?

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### Author: ![benja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@benja](https://discourse.processing.org/u/benja)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/5 "2020-05-05T05:33:53Z")

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awt ist part of java, so no need to download anything.  
you can just run the example above in processing, then “some text” is copied to your clipboard.

but no idea about android …

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### Author: ![noel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/noel/32/213_2.png) [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/6 "2020-05-05T06:45:25Z")

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See [here](https://discourse.processing.org/t/i-need-to-find-these-libraries/20484/2).

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### Author: ![noel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/noel/32/213_2.png) [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/copy-text-to-clipboard/14177/7 "2020-05-05T07:52:24Z")

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@Malsvir I expanded it a bit [here](https://discourse.processing.org/t/i-need-to-find-these-libraries/20484/3).