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How To Master Android Keyboard Shortcuts: The List Of Droid Hotkeys

17 December 2009 3 Comments

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Here is the list of keyboard shortcuts for Android based mobile devices:

Keyboard shortcuts for typing:

  • Alt + Spacebar: Insert a special character
  • Shift + Del: Delete the character to the right of the cursor
  • Alt + Del: Delete an entire line
  • Shift + Shift (press it twice): Activate caps-lock; press shift once more to exit
  • Alt + Trackball-Left: Move cursor to beginning of line
  • Alt + Trackball-Right: Move cursor to end of line
  • Alt + Trackball-Up: Move cursor to top of page
  • Alt + Trackball-Down: Move cursor to bottom of page
  • Shift + Trackball-Left/Right: Highlight text for cutting or copying
  • Menu + X: Cut text (will cut all text on-screen unless specific characters are highlighted)
  • Menu + C: Copy text to clipboard (will copy all text on-screen unless specific characters are highlighted)
  • Menu + V: Paste text from clipboard
  • Menu + A: Select all text in the current field

Keyboard shortcuts for browsing:

  • Menu + I: Zoom in
  • Menu + O: Zoom out
  • Menu + J: Go back a page
  • Menu + K: Go forward a page
  • Menu + R: Refresh current page
  • Menu + F: Find on page
  • Menu + B: Open bookmarks
  • Menu + S: Open social network sharing menu
  • Menu + H: View browsing history
  • Menu + S: Open browser settings

Keyboard shortcuts for scrolling:

  • Spacebar: Page down in any Web page/document view
  • Shift + Spacebar: Page up in any Web page/document view

Keyboard shortcuts for apps:

  • Search + B: Open browser
  • Search + C: Open contacts
  • Search + E: Open e-mail
  • Search + G: Open Gmail
  • Search + I: Open calendar
  • Search + M: Open maps
  • Search + P: Open music
  • Search + S: Open text messaging
  • Search + Y: Open YouTube


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3 Comments »

  • Droid Tutorials: Top 20 Tricks To Master Your Android Phone | areacellphone.com said:

    [...] can do everything from zooming into a Web page to opening a program. Check out our complete list of Android keyboard shortcuts to learn them [...]

  • Andrew said:

    You have menu+s for two different shorcuts. At least in android 2, browser settings is menu+p.

  • Lexi said:

    Just moved over to droid x from bb. Can anyone tell me how to search sender or subject within email? Thx