Cool keyboard feature

[Chris3D]

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just discovered it.

If you slide up with your finger on the Android keyboard, it'll open up two more rows containing numbers and basic symbols above the normal keys. You can then slide to the key you want and when you release, those two rows disapear again. Pretty handy when all you want is a single number or symbol like @, ?, / or the others.

Don't know if this is new in 2.2 or if it existed in 2.1 as well.

Here's a screenshot with the extra two rows open.

 

[Bond32]

Wow, that's a great tip. Thanks!

 

[tnez21]

Its standard on 2.2 had it on my og droid

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[fstbusa]

I used to have 2.2 and it worked but I reverted back to 2.1 because of battery life and I just tried it and can't seem to get it to work

 

[smor89]

yeah, i think this is a 2.2 thing

 

[MolecularGraph]

Wonder if anybody could make a ported version of the 2.2 keyboard for 2.1? All aosp of course

 

[NickA]

Wonder if anybody could make a ported version of the 2.2 keyboard for 2.1? All aosp of course

Already out there. And even better it's the keyboard from Gingerbread. You don't have to be rooted either. Works great on my fascinate.

Renamed Gingerbread Keyboard - updated 2010-12-28 - xda-developers

 

[geocomp]

cool tip thanks.

 

[PromoTheRobot]

Doesn't work on 2.1