[Android] [Windows] [Question] Possibility of clipboard sync functionality. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by birdcat@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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There used to be XClipper

But it's not developed anymore because, according to the developer Kaustubh Patange:

with Android 10, Google removed clipboard monitoring through the background process. [...] After quite a lot of research, I discovered a hack that enables clipboard monitoring for Android 10 devices. Although this feature is still in BETA with lot's of functionality missing. I made this project open source so developers can contribute their solution to this project.

What happened with this "hack" and the findings of Mr. Patange?

Did Android simply kill the possibility of such a sync function?

Microsoft's own Android Keyboard Swiftkey (yea I know, but I really need some functions of it) allows the syncing of clipboard content between Android and Windows. However, I heard that it's bad security and privacy practice to even enable clipboard history on Windows. I disabled it and use CopyQ.

However, it would be super nice to see something like XClipper for Android/Windows.

Any chance?

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[-] GreenDust 8 points 1 year ago

Does KDE Connect do what you want?

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh interesting. But they also write

Android 10 prevents apps from accessing the clipboard to prevent malicious apps from accessing your data. This makes the clipboard plugin in KDE Connect uncomfortable to use.

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You need to manually send it to the other device instead of having it constantly synced. Not a huge problem imo.

[-] birdcat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yea but I can also do that with any chat app that I have open on both devices anyways

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

But then you'd have to copy it twice. With KDE connect, it's a single button press on the sending device and you can paste.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, they havw a commit to fix it, but playstore don't gonna publish the app com that commit, you can compile yourself tho, btw i'm using kde connect and i need to press the shortcut in the notification to send the clipboard to my pc, but from my pc to my clipboard it work fine, but i use linux with kde plasma, so i don't think how good it work on windows(kde plasma is based on linux)