Shortcuts in Android mobiles

Shortcut keys plays an important role in navigation purposes from one application to another application.After being used to lots of shortcuts in Windows in PC we expect shortcuts in mobiles also.While Symbian mobiles does not provide the user with many shortcuts,Android based smartphones provides a lot of shortcuts.In this blog post I have given some essential shortcuts that can be used

Shortcuts for Android Apps:

Search-E: Open E-mail
Search-G: Open Gmail
Search-B: Open Web browser
Search-C: Open Contacts
Search-Y: pen Youtube

You can add or change these shortcuts through Settings-Applications-Quick launch

Web browser shortcuts
The browser shortcuts are really cool and there is a shortcut for almost every operation we want to do in a browser.

Menu-J: Go back a page
Menu-K: Go forward a page
Menu-R: Refresh current page
Menu-F: Find on page
Menu-B: Open bookmarks
Menu-A: Add bookmarks
Menu-S: Open social network sharing menu
Menu-H: View browsing history
Menu-S: Open browser settings
Menu-D: Downloads
Menu-G: Page info
Menu-E: Select text

Typing Shortcuts

Shift-Del: Delete the character to the right of the cursor
Alt-Del: Delete an entire line
Shift-Shift (press it twice): Activate caps-lock; press shift once more to exit
Alt-Trackball-Left: Move cursor to beginning of line
Alt-Trackball-Right: Move cursor to end of line
Alt-Trackball-Up: Move cursor to top of page
Alt-Trackball-Down: Move cursor to bottom of page
Shift-Trackball-Left/Right: Highlight text for cutting or copying

Only few persons know about these shortcuts that were available,this post will be really useful for people who are new to Android mobiles.