User's Manual

ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE USE THE KEYBOARD
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Gesture Typing
Gesture Typing works best for English. Quality varies for other lan-
guages, and some don’t support it yet.
To input a word using Gesture Typing:
1. Touch the location where you want to type to open the
keyboard.
2. Slide your nger slowly across the letters of the word you want
to input.
3. Release your nger when the word you want is displayed in
the floating preview or the middle of the suggestion strip. To
select one of the other words in the suggestion strip, touch it.
If the word you want isn’t shown while using Gesture Typing,
you can type it out manually. If you gesture a word and want to
change it, touch the word to see other choices in the suggestion
strip.
TIP: If there are letters you want to emphasize, like repeat-
ed letters, such as the “e” in sleep, pause over the “e” slight-
ly longer before moving on to the next letter.
Use Gesture Typing without the space bar
When you use Gesture Typing, there’s no need to use the space
bar — just continue to slide your nger across the letters you want
to input, then lift your nger to start the next word.
To change Gesture Typing settings, go to Set-
tings > Language & input > Keyboard & input meth-
ods > Google Keyboard> Gesture Typing.