Jelly Bean Keyboard - Cursor Keys

Ever wanted to add cursor movement keys to your text messaging experience? The Jelly Bean Keyboard includes this option, but it's somewhat hidden. Here's how to find and enable it.

First, download the app from the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jlsoft.inputmethod.latin.jbk43.free&hl=en

Next, go into the settings applet, then find "Languages and input".

Now look for Jelly Bean Keyboard 4.3 you installed earlier from the Play Store, and tap the gear icon next to that to enter settings for the keyboard.

Here's the confusing / hidden setting part. Across the top, there's a "Standard Settings" bar, and under that is stuff like Auto-capitalization, Vibrate on keypress, Sound on keypress.

To the RIGHT of "Standard Settings" is a "JBK 4.3 settings" item, which you can access by swiping from the right to the left.

Now scroll down until you see "Key layouts". Below that are options for keyboard layouts when you're in landscape or portrait orientation. Next is an option for "Show arrows" which you can set to Never, Portrait, Landscape, or Both.

The result? This:

New Year's Day

Been too long since I blogged here. Time to begin again.

All is white on New Year's Day
Like a dead channel, on the TV
I want to be coding
Be coding night and day
The more things change
The more they stay the same

I will iterate again
I will iterate again

Under a neon bulb
Group of devs chatter, in @s and pings
Bugzillas logged, JIRAs are too
The blogosphere says, says 
Say it's true, it's true...
And we can break through
Though platforms too 
Many spring from one 

I... I will write some tests again
I... I will write some tests again

Oh...
Maybe the time is right
Oh... maybe tonight...

I'll debug my tests again
I'll debug my tests again

And so we're told it's the container age
Transform and deliver your apps a new way
Still I want to be coding
Be coding night and day
The more things change
The more they stay the same

U2 - New Year's Day