How to listen for a copy in Android

Question

To get myself a little more familiar with content providers in Android, I'm making a small clipboard manager app. Its core functionality is to simply add whatever you copy to a database to display. I'm somewhat familiar with Android's Clipboard framework, but what I'm not sure how to do is to listen for copy "events" to know that a new item needs to be added to the clipboard.

To clarify, I need to be able to add a record to the database whenever the user copies something. How do I do this?

Answer 1

If you are using API level 11 (3.0) or above, then you can use addPrimaryClipChangedListener which is documented here and there is some example usage here.