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App Tour: Clip Layer for Android from Microsoft Garage
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After initial install of the Clip Layer app you will need to set the assist app that comes up when you long press on the Home key.
Select Clip Player from this list to make it the default Assist app.
Confirming your choice of Clip Player as the default Assist app.
Assit & voice input settings showing the Clip Layer selected as the default Assist app.
To activate Clip Layer just long press the Home key to bring up the overlay. Select the elements on the screen which you want to copy, add to tasks, email or share.
Tap the appropriate key on the menu bar to continue that action.
This is Clip Layer active over the app icon layout - normally an area of Android you can not copy text from.
Clip Layer active over a webpage which allows you to copy text as a whole instead of the normal copy method of manipulating selectors to pick the text you want to copy/share.
Options for Clip Layer.
Clip Layer selected text copied into an email for sharing.
Clip Layer selected text copied into an email for sharing.
Clip Layer is another Microsoft Garage experiment that was developed to fill a gap in the Android mobile operating system.
The app creates an overlay, or a clip layer, that can grab text content from across the interface including areas that would not normally be available or accessible through the normal copy, paste, or share actions.
However, it can also be used to grab text in those apps/areas that do support copy and paste - it will just grab it all instead of making you use the normal selectors and long presses.
Clip Layer also allows you to select multiple items/areas for copy and paste which is something the normal process in Android does not support.
The one thing Clip Player does accomplish is that it evens the playing surface when it comes to the ability to grab text from just about anywhere across an Android based device which can be very handy.
In fact, this app would be great on Windows 10 Mobile and iOS if it gets an opportunity to get ported over to those platforms.
Until then, those of you on Android can try Microsoft Garage's Clip Player by grabbing the download from the Google Play Store.
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