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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: doublethink on Sat, 01 February 2014, 13:01:00
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I am wondering if there is anyone out there who has had success with a USB OTG cable and a wired numpad in Android or even iOS.
It is for work and data entry into a google spreadsheet to sync back to my workstation. I can lug a laptop across the building, or hand write them. This sucks however.
All i need is the numbers and enter key. I have played with 12 different onscreen keyboards, and If I use a tablet instead of a phone, I can get some that show a kind of retarded looking numpad by default.
But I would prefer either a bluetooth or hardwired solution on either my phone, or a nexus tablet.
I found this, but I don't speak japanese:
http://www2.elecom.co.jp/peripheral/10key/tk-tbm008/
Looks windows only.
Microsoft made one at one point, but its discontinued and also claimed windows only.
Thanks for any input, ideas, anything.
:)
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Ok, in case anyone ever wants to try it, a USB OTG adapter and Adesso AKP-220B does work fine with Android 4.0+ You have to turn on numlock each time, but thats no big deal.
There is a bug in Google Drive Spreadsheets with the enter key creating a new line instead of going to the next field, but it is application level because it does the same bug even with a full keyboard attached. (full 104 key cherry keyboards work too :) )
I took the chance and it worked, so hooray.
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good, I have done the same. Most basic devices (mouses, keyboards) will work.