Pasting text into Android emulator clipboard using adb shell

Question

I need to paste text into the Android emulator clipboard using adb shell. tried on Android 1.6 and 2.3.1

I tried to use adb shell command: clipboard:[android.text.iclipboard]

"service call clipboard" where service codes are 1, 2, and 3, for getClipboardText, setClipboardText, and hasClipboardText respectively.

service call clipboard 2 s16 thisisinsertedtext 

does not seem to work while

service call clipboard 1 

shows the content of clipboard:

service call clipboard 1
Result: Parcel(
   0x00000000: 00000000 00000001 00000001 00000004 '................'
   0x00000010: 00650074 00740078 00000000          't.e.x.t.....    ')

Please advise how to set a value for emulator clipboard!

Answer 1

Use below command.

service call clipboard 2 i32 1 i32 18 s16 thisisinsertedtext

I think that the first one, "i32 1" is how many elements in clipboard. So, just one. Second is a length of string. The command written above shows...

Result: Parcel(00000000 '....') This usually means OK, no error.

So, my question is, is there any way to copy unicode string? I mean, muti-byte character sets, like Korean. I tried many way, but it failed.

Answer 2

Looks like all 3 old methods are deprecated since API Level 11 so it won’t work for ICS
Not clear if it's even possible to make it work with service call clipboard anymore...

static final int    TRANSACTION_getClipboardText 1
static final int    TRANSACTION_hasClipboardText 3
static final int    TRANSACTION_setClipboardText 2

www.androidjavadoc.com/1.0_r1_src/constant-values.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ClipboardManager.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/copy-paste.html