<p>I'm building an Android app and I want to copy the text value of an EditText widget. It's possible for the user to press <code>Menu+A</code> then <code>Menu+C</code> to copy the value, but how would I do this programmatically?</p>

Use
```
ClipboardManager#setPrimaryClip
```
method:
```
```
import android.content.ClipboardManager;

// ...

ClipboardManager clipboard = (ClipboardManager) getSystemService(CLIPBOARD_SERVICE); 
ClipData clip = ClipData.newPlainText("label", "Text to copy");
clipboard.setPrimaryClip(clip);
```
```
```
ClipboardManager
```
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