Deprecated. Use @react-native-community/clipboard instead.

Clipboard gives you an interface for setting and getting content from Clipboard on both Android and iOS

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Example

import React, { useState } from 'react'

import { SafeAreaView, View, Text, TouchableOpacity, Clipboard, StyleSheet } from 'react-native'

const App = () => {

const [copiedText, setCopiedText] = useState('')

const copyToClipboard = () => {

Clipboard.setString('hello world')

}

const fetchCopiedText = async () => {

const text = await Clipboard.getString()

setCopiedText(text)

}

return (

<SafeAreaView style={{ flex: 1 }}>

<View style={styles.container}>

<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => copyToClipboard()}>

<Text>Click here to copy to Clipboard</Text>

</TouchableOpacity>

<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => fetchCopiedText()}>

<Text>View copied text</Text>

</TouchableOpacity>

<Text style={styles.copiedText}>{copiedText}</Text>

</View>

</SafeAreaView>

)

}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

container: {

flex: 1,

justifyContent: 'center',

alignItems: 'center'

},

copiedText: {

marginTop: 10,

color: 'red'

}

})

export default App

Reference

Methods

getString()

static getString()

Get content of string type, this method returns a Promise, so you can use following code to get clipboard content

async _getContent() {

var content = await Clipboard.getString();

}

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setString()

static setString(content)

Set content of string type. You can use following code to set clipboard content

_setContent() {

Clipboard.setString('hello world');

}

Parameters:

Name	Type	Required	Description
content	string	Yes	The content to be stored in the clipboard

Notice

Be careful when you're trying to copy to clipboard any data except string and number, some data need additional stringification. For example, if you will try to copy array - Android will raise an exception, but iOS will not.