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• Tap to enter miniature icons, such as expressions,
astrological symbols, and animals.
• Tap
to use Google voice typing.
• Press and hold to change the input language or set up the
Google Keyboard.
• Press and hold and slide to to enable one-handed mode.
Tap
/ to switch to the right-hand or le-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 o.
3. On the Google keyboard, slide your nger from letter to letter
to trace a word without liing your nger until you reach the
end of the word.
Google Keyboard
The Google keyboard provides a layout similar to a desktop
computer keyboard. 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 enter a word, candidates appear above the keyboard.
Tap to select the correct one.
• 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.
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