iA Writer for Android: Quick Start

Welcome to iA Writer for Android.

What's New in v1.1

Google Drive integration
File and folder management for all three file systems
Improved hardware keyboard support, keyboard shortcuts
Touch animations

Using Writer

In an Open Document

Hide the soft keyboard to access the action bar or hit the menu icon (top right).
In the action bar:
- start a new document
- enter or leave Focus Mode
- share the document
- Undo
- Redo
Return to the document list by tapping the back arrow in the action bar, by using the back control or by swiping right.

In the Document List

Start a new document by tapping the plus in the lower right.
Create a new folder by tapping the create folder icon in the top right corner.
Delete, rename or move a document or folder by using the document context menu. Not all file systems support all operations.
Go to the home screen by tapping the back arrow in the action bar, by using the back control or by swiping right.
Go back to your document by swiping left.

On the Home Screen

Link a file system not yet linked by tapping on it.
Select the desired storage location.
Go back to the file list by swiping left.
Unlink a file system by long tapping on it.

Questions? Problems?

Visit http://ia.net/writer/android for more information
Visit http://ia.net/writer/support/android for help

We look forward to hearing from you!
— Information Architects

Markdown Guide

Basics

If you are not familiar with Markdown, it might look a little scary at first. Once you get the basics, you will quickly love it as it allows you to format your text without taking your hands off the keyboard. iA Writer’s Auto-Markdown will give you instant feedback if you got the formatting right or not.

Headings

You can use up to up to six levels by writing # before a heading; the number of hashtags defines the hierarchy of the heading. Don’t forget to add a space after the #:

First Level Heading

Second Level Heading

Third Level Heading

Emphasis and Importance

Emphasis (“italics”) and important (“bold”) are written by putting * or _ around the text you want to see in a different format.

Emphasis: example or example
Importance: example or example
Emphasis + Importance example or example

Numbered Lists

Type 1. then a space. Any number (followed by a full stop and space) can be used.

Ordered list item
Ordered list item
Ordered list item

Bulleted Lists

Type , - or + then a space. Create a bulleted list by using an asterisk (), hyphen (-), or plus sign (+), followed by a space.

Bulleted list item
Bulleted list item
Bulleted list item

Nesting Lists

You can also nest lists several levels deep.

First level
** Second level

First level
1.1. Second level

Blockquotes

Type > plus a space (just like email):

A quoted paragraph

A quoted paragraph inside a quotation

Advanced

Links

Create a link by surrounding the link text in square brackets, followed immediately by the URL in parentheses:

text to link

You can also use reference links. Add the reference in square brackets after the text to link. Then, on a line by itself add the reference with a colon, space, and the URL:

[text to link][ref]
…
[ref]: http://example.com/

Code

You can mark up code in-line using backticks (code), or add a code block by adding at least four spaces to the start of a line:

This is a code block

Footnotes

Add a footnote in square brackets preceded by a caret. Then add the footnote content like a reference link, for example:

Some text with a footnote^[1].
…

You can also add an inline footnote in the following manner

Some text with a footnote[^This is the footnote itself.].

Horizontal Rules

You can add a thematic break which will be represented by a dividing line (

) when exported to HTML. To do so, add three or more asterisks (*), hyphens (-), or underscores (_) on a line by themselves, optionally separated with spaces. For example:

Keyboard Shortcuts

A list of hardware keyboard shortcuts:

Cursor Position

Use the arrow keys to move through the document
Fn + ← go to start of line
Fn + → go to end of line
Ctrl + ← go to previous word
Ctrl + → go to next word
Ctrl + ↑ go to previous paragraph
Ctrl + ↓ go to next paragraph

Use shift plus any of the above keys to select text.

Text Manipulation

Ctrl + C copy
Ctrl + X cut
Ctrl + V paste
Ctrl + A select all
Ctrl + Z undo
Ctrl + Shift + Z redo
Ctrl + B bold
Ctrl + I italic
Ctrl + - strikethrough
Ctrl + 1...6 h1 ... h6
Tab insert four spaces
Shift + Enter line break

UI Control

Esc bring up menu

Fine-Print

iA Writer uses the Floating Action Button by Oleksandr Melnykov, it is copyrighted under the MIT license:

https://github.com/makovkastar/FloatingActionButton#license

iA Writer relies on the ICU library to identify character encodings, learn more about this excellent set of unicode tools under:

http://site.icu-project.org/

We use the standard tools provided by Google and, if you connect it, by Dropbox: license checking via the Play Store, Play Store analytics, Dropbox developer account analytics. None of these methods allow us to access the documents you store in iA Writer.

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