How to copy text to clipboard in Flutter — Flutter small explanations

There are often situations where the user needs something to be automatically copied to the clipboard. Be it a code, a link or something else. How to do this, you will learn in this article!

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Implementation in Flutter

The implementation of this feature in your app is very easy, because Flutter already has an extra function for it.

First, of course, find a place where you want the copy process to take place. Let’s say it should be a GestureDetector.

That was easy. Now we create a variable named data in the onTap function. To this variable we assign the ClipboardData class, which expects a text. There you can enter any string, be it a string from a variable, a textfield or anything else.

Now we have already created the data variable. Next we execute the function that copies the text. For this we call the function setData from the Clipboard class. This function expects ClipboardData as parameter. There we simply specify our just created data variable:

Now we are done! That wasn’t so hard, right?

Our widget could now look like this:

Now you can of course display a message that the text was successfully copied!

Conclusion

Today you have learned how to copy any text to your user’s clipboard. I really hope you enjoyed it! If so, I would be very happy if you could give me some claps and follow me here on Medium so you don’t miss any more Flutter content!

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