diff --git a/core/java/android/view/contentprotection/ContentProtectionUtils.java b/core/java/android/view/contentprotection/ContentProtectionUtils.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2023 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package android.view.contentprotection;
+
+import android.annotation.NonNull;
+import android.annotation.Nullable;
+import android.view.contentcapture.ContentCaptureEvent;
+import android.view.contentcapture.ViewNode;
+
+/**
+ * Utilities for reading data from {@link ContentCaptureEvent} and {@link ViewNode}.
+ *
+ * @hide
+ */
+public final class ContentProtectionUtils {
+
+    /** Returns the text extracted directly from the {@link ContentCaptureEvent}, if set. */
+    @Nullable
+    public static String getEventText(@NonNull ContentCaptureEvent event) {
+        CharSequence text = event.getText();
+        if (text == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return text.toString();
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the text extracted from the event's {@link ViewNode}, if set. */
+    @Nullable
+    public static String getViewNodeText(@NonNull ContentCaptureEvent event) {
+        ViewNode viewNode = event.getViewNode();
+        if (viewNode == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return getViewNodeText(viewNode);
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the text extracted directly from the {@link ViewNode}, if set. */
+    @Nullable
+    public static String getViewNodeText(@NonNull ViewNode viewNode) {
+        CharSequence text = viewNode.getText();
+        if (text == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return text.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/tests/coretests/src/android/view/contentprotection/ContentProtectionUtilsTest.java b/core/tests/coretests/src/android/view/contentprotection/ContentProtectionUtilsTest.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package android.view.contentprotection;
+
+import static android.view.contentcapture.ContentCaptureEvent.TYPE_SESSION_STARTED;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+
+import android.view.View;
+import android.view.contentcapture.ContentCaptureEvent;
+import android.view.contentcapture.ViewNode;
+import android.view.contentcapture.ViewNode.ViewStructureImpl;
+
+import androidx.test.core.app.ApplicationProvider;
+import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4;
+import androidx.test.filters.SmallTest;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+/**
+ * Test for {@link ContentProtectionUtils}.
+ *
+ * <p>Run with: {@code atest
+ * FrameworksCoreTests:android.view.contentprotection.ContentProtectionUtilsTest}
+ */
+@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
+@SmallTest
+public class ContentProtectionUtilsTest {
+
+    private static final String TEXT = "TEST_TEXT";
+
+    private static final ContentCaptureEvent EVENT = createEvent();
+
+    private static final ViewNode VIEW_NODE = new ViewNode();
+
+    private static final ViewNode VIEW_NODE_WITH_TEXT = createViewNodeWithText();
+
+    @Test
+    public void event_getEventText_null() {
+        String actual = ContentProtectionUtils.getEventText(EVENT);
+
+        assertThat(actual).isNull();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void event_getEventText_notNull() {
+        ContentCaptureEvent event = createEvent();
+        event.setText(TEXT);
+
+        String actual = ContentProtectionUtils.getEventText(event);
+
+        assertThat(actual).isEqualTo(TEXT);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void event_getViewNodeText_null() {
+        String actual = ContentProtectionUtils.getViewNodeText(EVENT);
+
+        assertThat(actual).isNull();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void event_getViewNodeText_notNull() {
+        ContentCaptureEvent event = createEvent();
+        event.setViewNode(VIEW_NODE_WITH_TEXT);
+
+        String actual = ContentProtectionUtils.getViewNodeText(event);
+
+        assertThat(actual).isEqualTo(TEXT);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void viewNode_getViewNodeText_null() {
+        String actual = ContentProtectionUtils.getViewNodeText(VIEW_NODE);
+
+        assertThat(actual).isNull();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void viewNode_getViewNodeText_notNull() {
+        String actual = ContentProtectionUtils.getViewNodeText(VIEW_NODE_WITH_TEXT);
+
+        assertThat(actual).isEqualTo(TEXT);
+    }
+
+    private static ContentCaptureEvent createEvent() {
+        return new ContentCaptureEvent(/* sessionId= */ 123, TYPE_SESSION_STARTED);
+    }
+
+    private static ViewNode createViewNodeWithText() {
+        View view = new View(ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext());
+        ViewStructureImpl viewStructure = new ViewStructureImpl(view);
+        viewStructure.setText(TEXT);
+        return viewStructure.getNode();
+    }
+}