Hacker’s Keyboard (the first one), Florisboard Beta, FUTO Keyboard and more have a button to reverse and repeat the actions.
This can reverse stuff like deleting a text and more.
This feature exists, but just isnt used!
Supported Keyboards
- Hacker’s Keyboard
- Thumbkey
- FUTO Keyboard
- Florisboard (beta)
- Heliboard (modern Fork of OpenBoard)
- Unexpected Keyboard
- AnySoft Keyboard
Hacker’s Keyboard can. Because it’s just a condensed full keyboard, ctrl, alt, arrow keys, function keys, and most of the rest included.
I rarely use that keyboard, but once in a while you just need to type something in a terminal or a remote desktop or something, and it really comes in handy then.
Take a look at Unexpected Keyboard too, it’s great and actively developed. F-Droid / GitHub / Play Store
Undo has been available in the Alt Menu of GBoard for a while. Long press on an editable text field then select Undo in the popup alternative menu (sometimes you need to scroll over or tap the 3 dots to see the full menu choices)
Let’s see if that’s true.
Nope. Couldn’t find it.
Not saying you’re lying, but it’s not available on my version of gboard.
There was a keyboard ages back that had a really nifty swipe shortcut for that. I really miss that keyboard!
With an OTG connector you can just plug a keyboard into your phone. You can do stuff like alt-tab to switch between open apps. And if you plug in a mouse, a giant cursor appears. It’s kinda cursed but it works.
Uuhh, I know we are talking about phones. But the stock keyboard supports all desktop shortcuts when Android runs on a tablet. Like, I’m using them right now on a Samsung A8.
Well, I’m downtown right now and I no longer have my tablet with me. But here’s from the horse’s mouth. It says Galaxy Tab S, but it applies to all Galaxy tablets. There you can see the ctrl key on the tablet’s default keyboard. That key has full functionality for the common shortcuts. That’s undo, redo, copy, cut, paste, and select all. I use them all the time ever since I got it. Both tablets and phones can undo and redo if you connect a bluetooth keyboard to them too.
The Samsung keyboard for phones also acquires the powers of undo and redo if you activate the swipe gestures.
I don’t know why it is so simple on the tablet but not on the phones, but whatever. It’s a UX quirk, it’s not some magic that the keyboards are creating. Android has an UndoManager right in the OS since before 2018. It is what apps that have undo buttons use themselves.
