Broadcast receiver for clipboard activity

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Even when the application is not running, I want to grab the content whenever something is copied.

For example, if the user copies something then, the application will receive a broadcast and start a service (calling an API, in my case). ALL IN THE BACKGROUND. I tried setting a broadcast receiver for USER_PRESENT and managing the clipboard from there, but in vain.

background-service broadcastreceiver clipboard service android
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As of Android 10, this is not possible unless your app currently has input focus (that is, not in the background) or is the user's currently selected keyboard app.

Because this is a privacy feature, there is, for better or worse, no way around it other than integrating the feature you want to build into a keyboard app.

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