MPClipboard

1. Multi
2. Platform
3. Clipboard

This project implements a set of libraries and self-hosted apps (both desktop and mobile) to implement a shared clipboard buffer across multiple devices running on multiple platforms.

It requires a WebSocket server for communication (can be local if you only need it for devices that run in the same local network).

Key components:

• Server - self-hosted WebSocket server (a single binary, 2.3MB of RAM).
• Generic client - a cross-platform library that is the heart of all desktop/mobile apps listed below. It talks over WebSocket and implements a dead simple communication protocol. You can use it to build your own client for any platform. Written in Rust, has C bindings.
• Linux client - integrates with Wayland clipboard, shows history in tray menu.
• macOS client - integrates with macOS clipboard, shows history in tray menu, displays system notification when there's a new text received from the server.
• Android library - a generic library for Android (Kotlin wrapper around Rust library)
• Patched FlorisBoard - a patched version of a popular open-source custom IME app for Android.

And potentially any other client can be implemented as well (iOS, Windows, etc).

API

There are 2 demo REPL clients (stdin lines are sent to the server, everything received from the server is printed to stdout):

• poll-based client, uses POSIX poll, can run on Linux/macOS
• android.os.Looper-based client, can be executed through adb shell