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Using external keyboard with Android mobilephone
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Sterlingtimes
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I have an external Bluetooth hard keyboard, Logitech K380 which I can use with a mobile phone to help me get over a hand disability.
Please, can anyone answer this question? There are three soft buttons at the bottom of my phone: a triangle pointing backwards (presumably called a back key), a circle presumably called home key) and a square.
How would I key in each of these three soft buttons on my hard keyboard?
How would I answer a call on my hard keyboard when the green circle appears (that is normally swiped)?
Please, can anyone answer this question? There are three soft buttons at the bottom of my phone: a triangle pointing backwards (presumably called a back key), a circle presumably called home key) and a square.
How would I key in each of these three soft buttons on my hard keyboard?
How would I answer a call on my hard keyboard when the green circle appears (that is normally swiped)?
I have osteoarthritis in my hands so I speak my messages into a microphone using Dragon. Some people make "typos" but I often make "speakos".
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Sterlingtimes wrote: »I have an external Bluetooth hard keyboard, Logitech K380 which I can use with a mobile phone to help me get over a hand disability.
Please, can anyone answer this question? There are three soft buttons at the bottom of my phone: a triangle pointing backwards (presumably called a back key), a circle presumably called home key) and a square.
How would I key in each of these three soft buttons on my hard keyboard?
How would I answer a call on my hard keyboard when the green circle appears (that is normally swiped)?
I doubt you can remap them. They are core to the Android OS
If someoner developed an app for it,then I would epxct it to require a rooted handset.
Edit: maybe not. not delved too deep
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.irishin.buttonsremapper&hl=en_GB
edit again. Looks like its only a physical button unfortunatly0 -
Look at these https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006564?hl=en-GB
https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/61228364.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy0 -
Thank you, both. The keyboard usefully does appear to recognise Android features, but the apps that I have found to permit the phone to be answered by the home button do not work. Consequently, the phone works well with the keyboard but I still cannot find a way of answering the phone using the keyboard. I think I have to mark this one down as a failure.I have osteoarthritis in my hands so I speak my messages into a microphone using Dragon. Some people make "typos" but I often make "speakos".0
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