how does cut and paste work in gingerbread

[OBLAMA2009]

can someone explain how you use cut and paste on droid x. where is the clipboard and how do you access it?

 

[Bateluer]

can someone explain how you use cut and paste on droid x. where is the clipboard and how do you access it?

Unless MotoBlur cocked it up, I believe it works the same way as Froyo.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Unless MotoBlur cocked it up, I believe it works the same way as Froyo.

froyo had cut and paste? gingerbread has the little brackets like ios

 

[Bateluer]

froyo had cut and paste? gingerbread has the little brackets like ios

All versions of Android have had cut and paste, from 1.0 to 3.1.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i know some adroid phones had it, but thought droid x did not. so how does it work? i see how to clipboard it, but how would you paste?

 

[Bateluer]

i know some adroid phones had it, but thought droid x did not. so how does it work? i see how to clipboard it, but how would you paste?

Droid X has cut and paste too. Should be a long tap to select, bring up the menu to copy, then another long tap where you want to paste to bring up the pop up again, tap Paste.

 

[Pliablemoose]

http://cache.vzw.com/multimedia/mim/mot_droid_x/droidx.pdf

Page 17

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

copy and paste is actually a pain in the ass in gmail. i was trying to explain that the iOS cursor selection was a little better, and that GB's cursor selection was miles better than 2.2, but I couldn't even invoke C&P in Gmail. It allowed me to copy one word I was tapping on but never could get the selection arrows up. Terrible UI Google. Put some damn thought into your C&P and stop half-assing these features. Even HTC got it down with Sense last year with the Incredible.

 

[xSauronx]

copy and paste is actually a pain in the ass in gmail. i was trying to explain that the iOS cursor selection was a little better, and that GB's cursor selection was miles better than 2.2, but I couldn't even invoke C&P in Gmail. It allowed me to copy one word I was tapping on but never could get the selection arrows up. Terrible UI Google. Put some damn thought into your C&P and stop half-assing these features. Even HTC got it down with Sense last year with the Incredible.

the gmail app is NOT consistent with everything else in froyo/android

open an email
hit the menu button > more > select text

you dont get the arrow or anything else. you just tap and drag to select what you want instantly....no adjusting is allowing. its ridiculous, and annoying.

google is starting to remind me of microsoft...i keep finding little things here and there that should be available or work like everything else, but its either not there, or just different for no good reason.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

the gmail app is NOT consistent with everything else in froyo/android

open an email
hit the menu button > more > select text

you dont get the arrow or anything else. you just tap and drag to select what you want instantly....no adjusting is allowing. its ridiculous, and annoying.

google is starting to remind me of microsoft...i keep finding little things here and there that should be available or work like everything else, but its either not there, or just different for no good reason.

You can adjust. I just did it. I did not know you had to do select text. I thought holding my finger on words would popup a copy/paste menu. However, when you hit select text it uses a mouse cursor to select text for you. Because gmail text is so small (and my fingers aren't even that big.... I wear medium sized gloves), or maybe because Android is poorly written, but when I drag my finger across 2 words, it never hits. IT selects the whole damn sentence with a line afterward.

I did however see the adjustment endpoints. I can then tune it to fit what I want, but I don't know why the C&P is just so clunky.

I agree Google should get its act together and fix up the UI here and there. It's like half-assed steps they're taking. First the keyboard sucks balls. Now the GB keyboard is half decent, but I still like the WP7 or iOS keyboard. It's far more responsive and accurate in prediction and correction. The cursor selection was absolutely not present and C&P was incomplete in Android 2.2 and before. Gingerbread adds some badly needed features, but the fact that copy and paste is just incomplete as a whole (why can't I C&P in twitter still?) goes to show that this thing is more difficult to master than people think.

After some more thought, C&P needs to be a system wide thing. Anytime you hold your finger on some text, you should be given the option to copy and paste. However, it needs to be implemented in a high level manner or something. Apple seems to have this down where in ANY APP, as long as the text is not an interactive button that does something in the app, you can get the copy/paste option. Any of the twitter apps can let you C&P. On Android it seems app dependent, and copy and paste is not a real system-wide implementation type thing. I probably butchered this from a software perspective in description, but it's clear there's a difference. Laugh at Apple or Microsoft all you want, but Apple did it right. Hopefully MS gets it down, and hopefully Google cleans up its act.

 

[ponyo]

I agree copy and paste in Gingerbread is better but still bad. iOS is much better at this; Android version feels like quick hack job with inconsistent input.

 

[iahk]

I'm still raging that I can't copy text in googletalk.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

iOS struggles with copy and paste on links. I just tried to Foursquare checkin for this hotel I'm at in Taiwan. My Chinese is horrible, so I google the english name in hopes of finding the Chinese characters.

I found it on my Android phone first but Opera mobile sucks dick at copy and paste and the Stock Browser works better. However, in the stock browser, my zoom was whacko where the flags got pushed to the edge of my screen and I was unable to select it. When I zoomed out the flags disappeared. FAIL.

I took my iPod Touch and found the Chinese name on Google but it was a link. I tried to highlight it, and it epic failed, so I tried the link I was at with my Android phone, but my iPod Touch kept trying to select the whole paragraph.

I don't know. It was just frustrating on both devices. Pathetic.

 

[hanoverphist]

Droid X has cut and paste too. Should be a long tap to select, bring up the menu to copy, then another long tap where you want to paste to bring up the pop up again, tap Paste.

i kind of miss how the X did copy and paste in sms before gingerbread. theres an extra step now. only a pain on occasion, but still extra