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WIP: Text box on Remote Input to send clipboard as key presses.

Elias Rodriguez Martin requested to merge eliasr/kdeconnect-android:clipboardTextInput into master

Summary

This is a work around proposal for Android 10, where clipboard cannot be read by apps. A small text box on the upper side of the Remote Input Activity allows to write or paste any text and get it automatically sent as key presses to the destination computer.

Note: @sredman made another proposal on the task thread that could be a better approach than this one, please take a look to his comments.

Implements #5

Test Plan

  • Pair the KDE Connect app with a computer
  • Clic (set focus) on a text box on the computer
  • Open the Remote Input and paste the current clipboard content on the top text box
  • Watch how text gets sent as key presses to the computer

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