UIPasteboard - Copy text to clipboard / pasteboard

This post shows an example app with a button and a text view. By pressing the button, a string is copied to the clipboard/pasteboard. Then the string may be pasted into the text view by tapping and holding.

Modify ViewController.swift as below:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

        

        //Button

        let button : UIButton!

        button = UIButton(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 300, 30))

        button.center = CGPointMake(view.center.x, 100)

        button.setTitle("Copy String", forState: UIControlState.Normal)

        button.setTitleColor(UIColor.blueColor(), forState: UIControlState.Normal)

        button.setTitleColor(UIColor.cyanColor(), forState: UIControlState.Highlighted)

        button.addTarget(self, action: "btnPressed:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)

        view.addSubview(button)

        

        //TextField

        let textView = UITextView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 100))

        textView.center = CGPointMake(view.center.x, 200)

        textView.backgroundColor = UIColor.cyanColor()

        textView.textColor = UIColor.blackColor()

        textView.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center

        view.addSubview(textView)

    }

    

    func btnPressed(sender: UIButton) {

        

        //Copy a string to the pasteboard.

        UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard().string = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

        

        //Alert

        let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "", message: "String copied to pasteboard!", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)

        alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))

        presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

    }

}

Result: