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Add Ability to Add Task Callers to Android Copy/Paste Menu

This is one area of Android I don't think Tasker has hooked into, infact many apps don't seem to hook into it, and I only became aware it was possible when I saw Anki do it (screenshot below). The menu I'm talking about is the selected text long press contextual menu that often has Copy/Paste/SelectAll (and occasionally Define) in it. This would serve as a quick way to copy text to a specific Task you want to use to process said test.

A Google searched yielded this: Google Copy/Paste Menu

I would suspect that there might be a way for Tasker to predeclare some Task Caller spots that the user could configure in preferences, much like many of the other areas the app has enabled enhancements for (Tiles, Share, etc.).

Screenshots:

- Dialog reference of the menu I'm referring to

- The extended portion of the menu where apps Google Translate and CoPilot have added their own options.

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Hi. This is already possible today using AutoShare :) Keeping open so maybe I can incorporate it directly in Tasker someday.

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For later readers: this is done in Auto Share using "text processors". Auto Share basically adds an item "Auto Share" to the selection menu. When you tap that, you can pick new menu items (text processors) you have created in Auto Share. You can act on those using Tasker (to configure all that is slightly complicated, but Auto Share itself explains how to do it).

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