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3. Select the input method you need.
Notes:
• The icon appears only when more than one input method is installed
and enabled for use.
• To manage input method settings, press the Home key > > Settings >
Languages & input > Virtual keyboard, and then tap an input method to
adjust its settings.
Google Keyboard
The Google Keyboard provides a layout similar to a desktop computer
keyboard. When screen auto-rotation is enabled, turn the phone sideways and
the keyboard will change from portrait to landscape. The landscape keyboard
is not supported in all applications.
• Tap the alphabetic keys to enter letters. Press and hold some specic keys
to enter associated accented letters or numbers. For example, to enter È,
press and hold and
the available accented letters and number 3 appear.
Then slide to choose È.
• As you type, suggested words appear above the keyboard. Tap a correctly
suggested word to select it. Press and hold a suggested word and drag it
to to remove it from suggestions.
• Tap to use uppercase. Double-tap to lock uppercase. This key also
changes to indicate the current case you are using: for lowercase, for
uppercase, and
when locked in uppercase.
• Tap
to delete the text before the cursor.
•
Tap to select numbers and symbols. You can then tap to nd more.
• Tap to choose emoji and emoticons.
• Tap
to use Google voice typing.
• Press and hold to change the input languages or set up the Google
keyboard.
•
Press and hold and slide to to change to a smaller keyboard for easier
one-handed typing. Tap / to switch to the right-hand or left-hand
keyboard, respectively. Tap to switch back to the full-sized keyboard.
Gesture typing
The Google keyboard supports the gesture-typing feature. Use this feature to
input a word by sliding from letter to letter on the keyboard.
To enable and use gesture typing:
1. Press and hold on the Google keyboard, and then tap Google
Keyboard settings.
2. Tap Gesture typing > Enable gesture typing if this feature is turned off.
3. On the Google keyboard, slide your nger from letter to letter to trace a
word without lifting your nger until you reach the end of the word.
KNOWING THE BASICS
KNOWING THE BASICS
End of the word
Start of the word