IA WRITER FOR ANDROID: QUICK START

Welcome to iA Writer for Android.

What’s New?

• Search for files and inside the editor

• Many user experience refinements
• Small bug fixes and performance improvements

Using Writer

In an Open Document
• Hide the soft keyboard, touch the text or hit “Esc” on your
hardware keyboard to access the menu.
• Go to the document list by swiping right.
• Go to the preview by swiping left.

In the Document List

• Click on a document to open it in the editor.
• Long click a file or folder to access context menu options like
moving, renaming, deleting.
• Go to the editor by swiping left.
• Navigate up by swiping right.

In the Storage System Menu

• Long press on a storage system menu entry to
disconnect/reconnect the storage system in question.

In the Preview
• Change the template.
• Hit “Export” to export the document as Text, HTML, PDF or MS
Word document.
• Swipe right to return to the editor.

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.

1. Ordered list item

2. Ordered list item
3. 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.

Unordered:

• First level
• Second level

Ordered:

1. First level
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 ( <hr> ) 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:

or

Content Blocks
You can now include include entire texts, tables, or program code
sequences by simply starting a new line with a slash / , followed by
the name of the file that you want to include. E.g.

/chapter1.txt

or:

/somecode.py

or even:
/sometable.csv

Learn more about content blocks here. Please note that Writer for
Android does not support the inclusion of local images (images from
the web can be included).

Under “Settings”, there is a new option that allows you to turn on file
extensions in the file list. Like that, you’ll not have to guess the
extension of a file that you want to add as a content block.

Commonmark
• Preview and Export support Commonmark 0.27. See this website
for more information.

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

• Use tab or the arrow keys to navigate the menu on a hardware
keyboard

FINE-PRINT

We would like to thank Andrei Gramakov for providing a Russian

interface translation.

Icons created by Raphaël Buquet and Shmidt Sergey from the Noun
Project.

iA Writer relies on the ICU library to identify character encodings:

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

Flexmark Markdown parser Copyright (c) 2015-2016, Atlassian Pty Ltd,

All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2016, Vladimir Schneider, All rights
reserved.

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

• The information required to connect to Google Drive resides in

your device’s contacts information. For that reason, we have to
ask you for permission to access your contacts. This will happen
on install on pre-Marshmallow devices. On Marshmallow and
later, it will only happen when you connect Google Drive. We will
 not use this information for anything else than to connect to
Google Drive.

1. The linked footnote appears at the end of the document.

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