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Ben Weller
Ben Weller

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Android Keyboard Shortcuts

Android Keyboard Shortcuts

On my keyboard, there's three different stored Bluetooth connections, so why not use all of them? I already have stored settings for my work laptop and my personal laptop, but I use my phone every day, so why can't I use a non-touchscreen-based interface on the phone? Needless to say, I connected a mouse and keyboard to my Android phone.

Despite the interfaces not being designed for mouse/keyboard at all, it worked shockingly well, and I think this might become part of my regular usage if there's something process-heavy I need to do on my phone.

While kicking the tires, I was shocked at the lack of easily searchable blogs writing about this topic, see the main exception to this trend.

Notable shortcuts:

Command Action
Command + E Mail
Command + Y YouTube
Command + I Settings
Command + P Music
Command + A Calculator
Command + G Mail
Command + H Home
Command + L Calendar
Command + C Contacts
Command + B Chrome (even despite the fact I have Firefox as the default)
Command + N Notification shade
Command + M Maps
Alt + Tab Quickly opens the recent apps
Super + Tab Opens up recent apps but stays open

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