Questions tagged [copy-paste]
For questions about using copy and paste within the Android device or Android apps in general.
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Copy a link instead of loading it?
There are various apps, like Discord, which when clicking a link provides the option of opening it in another app like a web browser or video player etc. Unfortunately, there is no option to copy the ...
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How can I copy the ChatGPT answer as Markdown?
I use the ChatGPT application on my Android phone. How can I copy the answer as Markdown? I have a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra running Android 13.
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How can I improve copy times between an Android phone and my home computer
How can I improve copy times between an Android phone and my home computer. It is a USB3 port which has faster transfer speeds than the USB 2.0 that is on the right side of my desktop computer. Direct ...
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Copy image from Gallery app or a file browser into a paste target of a web site
A website allows you to copy an image on the desktop (CTRL-C) and paste it per normal CTRL-V into an HTML element for upload. How can the same be done on Android, either in the Gallery app, Amaze File ...
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How to copy the coordinate (latitude/longitude) in Google Maps?
In Google Maps on my Android, I know when I click on a place on the map, it shows lat/long in the search bar. But how do I COPY the lat/long? All the forums I have read seem to have old info. They ...
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Most suitable file formats for exporting a text chat from a chat application
This post may be more appropriate on Super User Stack Exchange. Please migrate my post there if more appropriate. I was wondering what the best file format world be for exporting a chat from a ...
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Is it possible to disable the clipboard service?
I would like to replace the native clipboard functionality with a third-party app and I want to disable the stock clipboard to prevent myself from accidentally storing things there out of habit. Is ...
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copy to android clipboard in nvim from termux
I use neovim on termux on android 11 i commonly use :y to yank/copy text to nvim clipboard then paste it to another files recently I've tried using helix-editor(hx) looks and feels so similar to ...
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what happens in logcat when content is copied to clipboard?
I am trying in vain to identify if and how, in logcat, the events such as "text copied to clibboard" are logged. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Send android clipboard content to connected Macbook over ADB
I have connected my Android mobile phone to my Macbook via ADB. Through ADB shell commands, I have copied a text from an application to the Android's clipboard. Now, I would like to send this copied ...
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How to copy paste rich-text in Android 9?
I'm using Android 9 on Cherry Mobile Flare S8 Pro, and it seems I'm unable to paste rich text on an online rich text editor. For example, I'm copying a header and bold text within rich text format ...
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How can I find and remove forbidden characters in a filename?
In Windows, I often use copying a piece of text into notepad as a way of removing special characters that can cause trouble. This became a much more urgent problem in Android six months or so ago, ...
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Google keep: Copying image from one note to another
I am using Google keep on an Android 11 device. I am wondering how I can copy an image in Google keep from one Google keep note to another. How can I do this? I'm asking because I received an image ...
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Searching for and copying Android app text elements running it on a PC
Problem: some Android apps present large portions of text and/or large forms, which, unlike web pages, are not friendly to searching or copy-pasting. Consider a generated value (like ticket ...
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How can I configure the clipboard of the Google keyboard so that it doesn't delete all items upon phone restart?
The clipboard of the Google keyboard remove its history upon phone restart. How can I prevent that? I use a Google Pixel 6.