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Media Picker - Choose image from clipboard
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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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Perhaps you can paste it into an image editor app and then save it as a file?
Pretty sure the media picker can only pick files on Android.
Also if the image was on screen at some point before it was on the clipboard, you could take a screenshot as a rough workaround. Those are also saved as files.
I am trying to avoid saving the image and only use the clipboard.
I actually took a quick look at the Android API to see if there was an obvious way to make an app to do this, and as far as I could find, there is not. It might be impossible.
In the media select window I see the ability to select from other apps:
I do have to get there by selecting "browse" from the three dots menu
Oh! Good find. Looks like the way to do this is by implementing ACTION_GET_CONTENT. I can't help you beyond that (I don't have a dev environment set up and am a novice anyway)
Yeah. This is tempting me to set up an android dev environment myself. Never done any android dev besides React Native.