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How to develop an Android tool to be used for any text in any app

  • I'm an Android developer and I'm trying to figure out how to build a tool/app that suggests features to the user when highlighting any text on any other application. Is that possible? I guess it will be similar to developing the "copy and paste" feature, but I just need to know from where to begin and what do I exactly need to achieve this. EDITED: Can I use "The Clipboard Framework" to listen for text selection?

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    Is that possible? Generally speaking, no, for security reasons. In this specific case, you could create your own input method editor (a.k.a., soft keyboard), which the user could elect to use, and you could find out when the user selects text in an EditText. But writing a good input method editor is not simple, and it will have no effect on, say, text highlighted in a Web browser. Can I use "The Clipboard Framework" to listen for text selection? No.

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Mmmmmh, you must do all tutorials and read theory before you start programming anything. If you don't want to do that, you could start doing things that are already done in tutorials and manuals. By the way, try to do http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html tutorial, to learn the basics about save content and manipulating text. Then, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/package-summary.html about writing text. And then, you can start thinking about aplications.

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