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
  • Klear@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 months ago

    Hacker’s Keyboard can. Because it’s just a condensed full keyboard, ctrl, alt, arrow keys, function keys, and most of the rest included.

  • oohgodyeah@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    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)

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Found FUTO to be my favorite of the and trying it out now as a daily driver, thanks for the suggestion :)

      • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        It’s the best replacement for Google keyboard I’ve tried by a wide mile. I like the gestures it has by comparison, they allow finer control. It’s also very stylish. I’ll probably use it for a long while.

        • vivavideri@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          I’ve been trying to find a new keyboard for a while now but I find myself missing the gif menu. 😩 The second they add one to futo or heliboard I’m so down

  • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    I’ve also used hacker keyboard to ctrl+c/ctrl+v when apps block the regular context copy/paste actions, pretty handy.

  • lnxtx@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Sounds like a bad UI/UX. Rely only on the keyboard provider.

    Add “HeliBoard” to the list.

  • Lojcs@lemm.ee
    1·
    5 months ago

    They also show up on the context menu in supported apps regardless of the keyboard, no?

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    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.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        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.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I’m always kind of surprised that, Google has yet to follow iOS in having universal, system wide, undo / redo shortcuts.

    Back in iOS 1 and 2, we used to mock Apple for lacking universal undo. Then they added that shake to undo feature in iOS 3. That gesture is stupid as hell, and the newer three finger gestures are also kind of janky, but at least they work everywhere.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    5 months ago

    A thing I did with Key Mapper from F-Droid lets me undo by pressing Volume Down + Volume Up, and Redo by pressing Volume Up + Volume Down (the order matters). If anyone’s interested I can share how to set it up.

    Note that it’d work better and more seamlessly if you use Shizuku, but I don’t so there’s some caveats. I’ll happily go into more detail if anyone wants, just ask.