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Insert today's date in Google Sheets
Format the cell as a date
Select the cell you want to add the date to, and click the calendar icon, the current date is inserted.
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Gboard: Set Custom Unicode Characters on Longpress or Add Custom Keyboard Keys or Layout
For the time being, I found an alternative solution. It's not the solution that I wanted, but it does the job reasonably well. I'm posting it here so it may benefit someone else as well.
Gboard ...
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Why do text input methods generally omit an undo function?
This question can get better answers from developers than the end user community.
Android framework does have a class named UndoManager "for managing and interacting with the global undo state ...
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How to remap keyboard shortcut?
Keyboard customization in Android could be done via modifying Key layout files (*.kl) or Key character map files (*.kcm).
KL files specify which Android key is produced by each physical key.
KCM files ...
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Map keys to touchscreen
If you are willing to use a PC as the interface.
There appears to exist a modified version of the open-source scrcpy which has keyboard shortcut support for playing games, but should partially map to ...
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How can I close my current app via a keyboard shortcut?
A spin on the Markus Lankeit's answer, tested on my Android TV.
Hold Alt key entire time
Press Tab key (app switcher will appear)
With arrow keys, select an app that is running
Press Del or Backspace ...
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How to type "Control" on Termux?
You will want to use Hackers Keyboard (available on Play Store as well as on F-Droid) for that, which was explicitly written for such purpose:
Hacker's Keyboard (source: Google Play; click image for ...
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How to type fractions like ⅝ in keyboard?
For Gboard: Just enable longpress for symbols in Gboard settings. Than find textbox and in lower left corner of keyboard switch to symbols, than longpress on some numbers will give you fraction or ...
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Switching app with physical keyboard, with one click "alt + tab"
the only way this works is as follows:
alt-tab, use arrows keys to select app and than press enter, once app has switched only than release alt-tab.
Hope this helps.
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Insert today's date in Google Sheets
In the support article Keyboard shortcuts for Google Sheets, the use of keyboard shortcuts is possible with an external keyboard.
From the article:
If you plug an external keyboard into your ...
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Is there a way to lock an Android device using a keyboard?
On my BT Logitech keyboard:
FN + Esc = lock phone
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Is Android associated with a specific set of control keys?
Android CDD -section 7.1.2 does not specify any mandatory requirements, except support for third party IME, say for instance Hacker's Keyboard, which implements those control keys
In my understanding,...
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Home shortcut on Apple bluetooth keyboard
I found out which shortcut key corresponds to Home. It is cmd + return. It seems that the cmd key corresponds to the search key in the list of shortcuts available in the Physical keyboard settings.
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How to type fractions like ⅝ in keyboard?
With the SwiftKey keyboard navigate to your Numeric keys and long-press the number 5 to get ⅝ as an option.
Go to numerical keys in bottom left and long press 1-3, 5 and 7. It will give you options if ...
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Map keys to touchscreen
You can read mouse and keyboard data from /dev/input/event* and write data into touchscreen by writing data to /dev/input/event*, use EVIOCGRAB to prevent event sent to other program.
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Map keys to touchscreen
Although this question has an accepted answer, I just thought I could add another option, for others looking for something like this.
You could use an automation app like Automate, Macrodroid, Tasker ...
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How to disable Shift + Space to change language on Android?
Google just posted an update on the ticket for one of the suggested solutions to this issue stating that the next version of Gboard is going to block Shift+Space if any character other than space is ...
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How to take a screenshot using a keyboard shortcut on an android device?
Download Button Mapper app
decide a key to use to take screenshots(which you don't use usually).
Open the key mapper app and record the key in it(the UI is self explanatory)
Set the function of the ...
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Map keys to touchscreen
You can use a keymapper app like octopus.
This app mirrors the original app and adds keymapper.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaozhuo.gameassistant
Here's the link for this app!
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How can I close my current app via a keyboard shortcut?
In Android 9:
To go home you can press the Windows key (if you have a keyboard for Windows) plus Enter
Press the Win key plus -. Android will show you all shortcuts.
Another way, if you already ...
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Equivalent of the Control + F to search text in PDF
Based on your comment that you often use Adobe Acrobat, the app offers the same process as Google's PDF viewer. When reading a document, you must click the magnifier.
You can then enter the word(s) ...
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Equivalent of the Control + F to search text in PDF
Are you using Google's PDF viewer? If so, there should be a magnifying glass on the top right where you can search from.
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How to type "Control" on Termux?
When you slide on the left-hand side of the screen, you get two options:
Keyboard
New session
Click and hold on the keyboard and all the essential keys will appear on your keyboard. That's all you ...
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Shortcut key to hide all windows on Samsung DeX
win (meta) + up = maximize
wim + down = minimize
wim + m = maps
win + s = SMS
win + d = desktop/minimize all
win + f = finder/search device
win + k = calendar (kalendar??)
win + L = lock
win + enter = ...
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Shortcut key to hide all windows on Samsung DeX
"Meta+Enter" will minimize all the current open windows on the desktop and pressing "Meta+Enter" again will reopen the windows.
You can also press "Meta+/" to view all the default shortcuts on ...
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Shortcut key to hide all windows on Samsung DeX
Hit Meta+Enter.
To view more shortcuts, hit Meta+!.
Pro-tip : do it from Chrome and you'll see Chrome's shortcuts as well !
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Insert today's date in Google Sheets
First, format the column as date, or date & time, like "13/01 0:00". Then, every time you try to edit, a calendar button will be shown on the bottom right.
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No more puncuation shortcuts in lollipop google keyboard?
Almost a year ago but found out only today after scouting lots of sites.
Click on Gboard> Preferences and then Long Press for symbols.
Might not have everything you want but that does help a lot.
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Is there a way to lock an Android device using a keyboard?
For the users of the Logitech K850 keyboard, FN + F11 locks the Android device.
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