Android support

[mks-h]

Hi! I see two possible uses of this library on Android:

• By some JVM apps, through their own rust library (e.g. game engines)
• By cross-platform term apps, through Termux (e.g. jmacdonald/amp)

The latter probably can be done by simply running process 'termux-clipboard-get/set'. About the first case — there is an easy way in SDK to use the clipboard, however, it needs to be used through JNI. This crate is used by Servo among others, so I think it'll be fine to use.

Things to think about:

• Can the Termux case be covered by the JNI thing?
• How to handle different Android SDKs?
• How to test?

[chrisduerr]

There's currently no plans to support any other platform.

I'm sorry, I was thinking this was opened against the Alacritty terminal emulator. Copypasta can certainly look into supporting Android, though it's likely nothing official maintainers are going to sink significant time into.

[Fancyflame]

I have implemented Android support and opened a pull request to https://github.com/aweinstock314/rust-clipboard, but nobody respond. Please take a look at my fork: https://github.com/Fancyflame/rust-clipboard. I'm glad to open a pull request to this repository if needs.

Have tested on my physical phone (winit).
NDK: r22b
platform: Android 10
SDK: (I forgot, should be the latest)

[chrisduerr]

@Fancyflame If you check the readme of this repo, you'll come to realize this is also a rust-clipboard fork since they didn't merge our Wayland support PR.

Your android implementation seems pretty reasonable, are you interested in sending a PR?

[Fancyflame]

@chrisduerr Of course. Please wait a moment.

[Fancyflame]

@chrisduerr I'm sorry but I found it's little difficult for me to operating this on my phone. copypasta is not completely the same as clipboard so, it may needs some extra modification. Would you mind I open PR tomorrow, when I could get my laptop? It's near 3 a.m. in China. XD

[chrisduerr]

No worries, take all the time you need.