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Show HN: Open Source Android App to Share to Clipboard

22 points by tasn 12y ago

tasn 12y ago
Additional links: GitHub: https://github.com/tengusw/share_to_clipboard https://github.com/tengusw/share_to_clipboard F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/app/com.tengu.sharetoclipboard https://f-droid.org/app/com.tengu.sharetoclipboard
Taig 12y ago
How does this differ from the system "Share to clipboard" (at least on Android 5.0) option?
- tasn 12y ago
  Android 5.0 doesn't have "Share to clipboard", it's actually provided by Google Drive. Many (especially non nexus users) don't use Google Drive. Furthermore, this app is also useful for people not using a Google based Android, like the Amazon version or Replicant. Edit: we also handle vcard and plan on adding other formats which Google drive doesn't.
  - Taig 12y ago
    Interesting that drive provides this functionality, and not the system. Thanks for clarification! (:
xwowsersx 12y ago
Cool. I've been out of Android development for some time, but why does this need be an Activity? Couldn't it simply be a service (an IntentService or otherwise) that receives the intent and drops the text in the clipboard? Aren't Activitys usually associated with some UI that fills the screen?
- tasn 12y ago
  We've actually had issues with the app not showing in the share button when using IntentService, but following your suggestion we'll give it another go. :) Thanks for your suggestion.
untitaker_ 12y ago
I've been using https://github.com/johanhil/copy-to-clipboard https://github.com/johanhil/copy-to-clipboard. How does this one differ?
- tasn 12y ago
  I've also used it for a while. That one has an annoying visual bug (flashing phantom activity) and doesn't support things other than text/plain. We would have normally contributed back to the original project instead of writing from scratch, but since it hasn't been improved in years, the author is completely inactive and it's a fairly simple application, we decided to roll our own.
  - untitaker_ 12y ago
    Fair enough.
makimoto 12y ago
Using "share to clipboard" from Alexey Lyubeznov. His is 11kb. Yours is 1mb+. What does yours do that his does not?
aw3c2 12y ago
makimoto, you are hellbanned for ages and I don't really see why. Sorry! Reposting makimoto's comment: Using "share to clipboard" from Alexey Lyubeznov. His is 11kb. Yours is 1mb+. What does yours do that his does not?
- tasn 12y ago
  Handle VCards and soon other types (this pulls in some libs). Also, now looking following your comment, we are pulling in the appcompat library for no apparent reason, we'll remove that, and it'll probably shrink down the binary size. Thanks.

22 points by tasn 12y ago

tasn 12y ago

Additional links: GitHub: https://github.com/tengusw/share_to_clipboard https://github.com/tengusw/share_to_clipboard F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/app/com.tengu.sharetoclipboard https://f-droid.org/app/com.tengu.sharetoclipboard

Taig 12y ago

How does this differ from the system "Share to clipboard" (at least on Android 5.0) option?

tasn 12y ago
Android 5.0 doesn't have "Share to clipboard", it's actually provided by Google Drive. Many (especially non nexus users) don't use Google Drive. Furthermore, this app is also useful for people not using a Google based Android, like the Amazon version or Replicant. Edit: we also handle vcard and plan on adding other formats which Google drive doesn't.
- Taig 12y ago
  Interesting that drive provides this functionality, and not the system. Thanks for clarification! (:

xwowsersx 12y ago

Cool. I've been out of Android development for some time, but why does this need be an Activity? Couldn't it simply be a service (an IntentService or otherwise) that receives the intent and drops the text in the clipboard? Aren't Activitys usually associated with some UI that fills the screen?

tasn 12y ago
We've actually had issues with the app not showing in the share button when using IntentService, but following your suggestion we'll give it another go. :) Thanks for your suggestion.

untitaker_ 12y ago

I've been using https://github.com/johanhil/copy-to-clipboard https://github.com/johanhil/copy-to-clipboard. How does this one differ?

tasn 12y ago
I've also used it for a while. That one has an annoying visual bug (flashing phantom activity) and doesn't support things other than text/plain. We would have normally contributed back to the original project instead of writing from scratch, but since it hasn't been improved in years, the author is completely inactive and it's a fairly simple application, we decided to roll our own.
- untitaker_ 12y ago
  Fair enough.

makimoto 12y ago

Using "share to clipboard" from Alexey Lyubeznov. His is 11kb. Yours is 1mb+. What does yours do that his does not?

aw3c2 12y ago

makimoto, you are hellbanned for ages and I don't really see why. Sorry! Reposting makimoto's comment: Using "share to clipboard" from Alexey Lyubeznov. His is 11kb. Yours is 1mb+. What does yours do that his does not?

tasn 12y ago
Handle VCards and soon other types (this pulls in some libs). Also, now looking following your comment, we are pulling in the appcompat library for no apparent reason, we'll remove that, and it'll probably shrink down the binary size. Thanks.