How to Connect Keyboard to Mobile? Learn 3 Easy Ways

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How to Connect Keyboard to Mobile? Learn 3 Easy Ways

Touch typing is easy and fun. But, you are not able to use those features with touch typing compared to typing on a keyboard. Which we use with a computer through a keyboard.

If you can connect your desktop keyboard to your tablet or smartphone, you can make your phone a mini computer and use all the same options you use on a computer or laptop.

Yes, you can easily connect a full-sized keyboard to your Android device, and here I am going to show you how to connect a desktop keyboard to an Android phone.

Additionally, you can connect a computer keyboard to your phone in 3 different ways. So let us know about 3 ways to connect a computer keyboard to an Android phone.

By doing this you can get many benefits like your typing speed will increase and you will be able to do your work easily and in less time, apart from this the biggest benefit you will get is that you can make your Android device a computer.

Before this, we will know what components are required to connect a computer keyboard to an Android phone.

What components are needed to connect the keyboard to the mobile?

To connect the physical keyboard and mouse to the mobile, you must have these things.

  1. OTG Supported Android Phones
  2. OTG Cable
  3. Physical computer keyboard

(1) How to Connect USB Keyboard to Android Phone via USB OTG

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If your device is USB OTG supported then you can connect the computer USB keyboard to the smartphone via USB OTG (on the go). If your smartphone is 5-6 years old then only it will not have the facility to use USB OTG. Very old phones did not have OTG features.

However, if you are not aware of it, you can confirm it on Easy OTG Checker. This app automatically detects the required USB OTG hardware and software APIs. You can buy a good USB OTG adapter online for as low as $5, I would suggest you to go for UGREEN Micro USB.

Once you get USB OTG, you will connect your computer keyboard with “USB connector”, then your keyboard will be connected automatically. Like connecting to a computer.

If the keyboard is not connected to the phone then you can follow these steps

  1. go to phone settings
  2. Click on the search bar at the top of Settings and type “OTG” and click Enter
  3. turn on OTG

Now open any app in your android device and start typing on the keyboard you will see text on your phone screen. Once connected you can use all the keys and shortcuts.

(2) How to Connect WiFi Keyboard to Android Phone

There is an easy way to connect your computer’s WiFi keyboard to an Android phone. You can type through your wifi computer keyboard on your Android phone. It lets you type new messages and edit documents on your device.

If you want to add wifi keyboard in your mobile then first download the wifi keyboard app from the google play store and install it on your Android device.

After that open the setting page on your Android phone and find options of language and keyboard, in some Android phones you can choose the locale and text options.

You can see the WiFi keyboard box in the list of Locale & text or Language & keyboard options. After that you will get the input method tap, in this also you will see the option of a WiFi keyboard.

Now launch any one internet browser like Chrome or Opera. After this open the browser on your phone and paste this IP address (http://192.168.1.8:12111) in the search bar and press the enter key.

When this IP address is opened, you will see the result that you have completed the configuration of the wifi keyboard setting with your Android device and now you can type via wifi keyboard on your mobile.

(3) How to pair the Android phone with the Bluetooth keyboard

You can also connect a Bluetooth keyboard to your Android phone. If you want to type long emails or use full office suite on your Android phone then you should connect wifi keyboard.

  1. Turn on Bluetooth on both devices.
  2. Then choose Keyboard from the Bluetooth devices list and enter the PIN code when prompted.
  3. Simply the keyboard will be connected, you can start typing.

Just in this way, you can easily connect an Android device with a Bluetooth keyboard.

I hope this post will help you to connect your desktop keyboard to your Android device and make your smartphone more useful.