{"id":848,"date":"2012-04-09T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-04-08T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T23:21:37","slug":"getting-the-most-of-your-matlab-mobile-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2012\/04\/09\/getting-the-most-of-your-matlab-mobile-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Most of Your MATLAB Mobile Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve stopped being surprised when I talk to iPhone and iPad owners and find out they don&#8217;t know that you can tap and hold most keys on the virtual keyboard to get additional related keys. For example, on almost any iOS keyboard, tap and hold the &#8220;A&#8221; key to selection of accented a&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/keyboard_a_popup.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/keyboard_a_popup.gif\" alt=\"Extended keys for A on iOS\" title=\"Extended keys for A on iOS\" width=\"320\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-850\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In MATLAB Mobile 3.1 on both iPhone and iPad, we&#8217;ve incorporated this behavior for each of the symbol keys in our custom keyboard rows. We&#8217;ve grouped symbols together in a way we think are logical: brackets, quotes, punctuation, math operations, logical operations. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a catalog for the iPhone:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/paren.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/paren.png\" alt=\"MATLAB Mobile parenthesis extra key\" title=\"paren\" width=\"344\" height=\"137\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-854\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/quote.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/quote.png\" alt=\"MATLAB Mobile quotes extra key\" title=\"quote\" width=\"346\" height=\"139\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-855\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/colon.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/colon.png\" alt=\"MATLAB Mobile semicolon extra key\" title=\"colon\" width=\"349\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-856\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/plus.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/plus.png\" alt=\"MATLAB Mobile plus extra key\" title=\"plus\" width=\"349\" height=\"134\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-857\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/equals.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/equals.png\" alt=\"MATLAB Mobile equals extra key\" title=\"equals\" width=\"346\" height=\"132\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-858\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The iPad has the same set of keys in addition to the digits 0-9. The digit keys do not have any extra keys behind the tap &#038; hold. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/files\/ipadkeyboard.png\"><\/div>\n<p>Let us know what you&#8217;d like to see in the next iterations of the keyboard, in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve stopped being surprised when I talk to iPhone and iPad owners and find out they don&#8217;t know that you can tap and hold most keys on the virtual keyboard to get additional related keys&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2012\/04\/09\/getting-the-most-of-your-matlab-mobile-keyboard\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[81,193,79,67,217,78,218,216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}