Gadgetory

hey guys it's Joe for pocketnow.com and you know what most people out there didn't start with Android they came from somewhere well today I want to show you something that you palme people might like now on palm not webOS but palm way back in the day to get text in you had something called graffiti and graffiti for those of you who don't know was a text input method that let you put in scribbles or scratches that were really simple characters and you could use these single stroke characters in most cases to write on the screen and it would be converted into text well that's great I never could figure it out and that's why I went with Newton but now they have graffiti for Android so let's go take a look okay so what I've done is I've gone out to the Android Market I downloaded and installed graffiti just do a search on graffiti and then I activated that as one of my accepted input methods next you need to select it so what I've done here is I fired up Evernote and I opened a new note now you can use any app that has a text field in it we're gonna tap and hold on that text field and choose input method and this will show you all of your installed and active keyboards Android keyboard and graffiti in my case we're gonna switch to graffiti and you'll notice the keyboard was swamped out with the graffiti pad now this graffiti pad is divided into two areas the letters and the numbers area and you can see letters is quite a bit bigger than numbers keep in mind that for the most part when you're writing graffiti you're writing in all uppercase with some kind of special characters K being one a being another these should be really easy relatively quick single stroke characters to write stuff and once you get the hang of graffiti you can be really fast at it so let me show you what I mean we'll just do the alphabet here really fast there's an a b c d e kind of funny-looking f a G like I said a G it needs that sharp edge there you'll get an O lowercase for H and I has a dot on top and you have a J we'll do numbers over here 1 2 3 so kind of cool now to switch back of course all you need to do is tap and hold and change your input method to graffiti and your from graffiti rather because we're into graffiti now to Android keyboard and there you go you've got your other keyboards so you can switch back and forth and it's kind of nice to have that quick way to jot rather than just to come in here and type if you want to write faster so showing a little bit of a kick back to the past the graffiti input method I'm Jo for pocketnow.com if you liked this video and think that having alternate input methods on Android is pretty cool give this video a thumbs up as always subscribe to our video channel so you can stay up to date with all things relating to mobile tech and go over to pocketnow.com read the article associated with this so that you can get a link over to a graffiti cheat sheet so you can learn how to use graffiti and speed up your text input