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It’s been years since I last tried to pair a Bluetooth or USB keyboard with my Android phone. After being a physical QWERTY proponent for years and hating on touchscreen typing, I wholly but slowly embraced pecking on a glass surface. There were a few times I wished I had a keyboard for my Android tablets, but it wasn’t frequent enough to make me pay for one.
That changed a few weeks ago when I started testing the Clicks Keyboard with my Pixel 9 Pro, which is running Android 16‘s latest QPR3 beta. I’d seen my colleague Mishaal Rahman cover Google’s work on keyboard support for years, but I honestly didn’t expect it to be this good. So here’s my rundown of all the excellent things I enjoy about using an external keyboard with Android 16.