[ExI] Single-hand touch typing in Ender's Game

Will Steinberg steinberg.will at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 20:18:14 UTC 2013


Adrian, what version of Android are you running?


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Odell Huff <odellhuff2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the (enthralling!) movie, Ender types complete-sentence emails with
>> one hand on a touch screen. Does this technology actually exist, or could
>> it?
>>
>
> I have composed some of my recent emails to this list on a touch screen
> with one hand - indeed, with two fingers, sometimes just one.  This did not
> take any special software; this was just using the standard GMail app with
> the standard Android in-screen keyboard.  I have used in-screen keyboards
> on iOS as well.
>
> Perhaps the UI could be improved to increase typing speed (including
> reducing typos that need to be corrected, lowering speed), but what you
> have described exists, and is readily available today.
>
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