How To Master Android Keyboard Shortcuts: The List Of Droid Hotkeys
17 December 2009
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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
[...] 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 [...]
You have menu+s for two different shorcuts. At least in android 2, browser settings is menu+p.
Just moved over to droid x from bb. Can anyone tell me how to search sender or subject within email? Thx
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