react-native/docs/clipboard.md

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`Clipboard` gives you an interface for setting and getting content from Clipboard on both iOS and Android


### Methods

- [`getString`](docs/clipboard.html#getstring)
- [`setString`](docs/clipboard.html#setstring)




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# Reference

## Methods

### `getString()`

```javascript
Clipboard.getString()
```


Get content of string type, this method returns a `Promise`, so you can use following code to get clipboard content
```javascript
async _getContent() {
  var content = await Clipboard.getString();
}
```




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### `setString()`

```javascript
Clipboard.setString(content)
```


Set content of string type. You can use following code to set clipboard content:

```javascript
_setContent() {
  Clipboard.setString('hello world');
}
```

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| - | - | - | - |
| content | string | yes | The content to be stored in the clipboard. |