Technical Preview: Keyboard Navigation

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As part of Google Summer of Code 2024, @Venky has added keyboard navigation to App Inventor. This should allow for the creation of apps as well as designing simple user interfaces without the use of a mouse. Blocks editing has some features, but we expect most keyboard navigation of blocks to be part of the Blockly library and its plugins.

You can take a look here.

A list of shortcuts can be found under Help->Show Keyboard Shortcuts or Alt-?.

Thanks to our GSoC contributors for making this such a great summer in GSoC.

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Really Appreciate and Good News!! :crazy_face:

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En caso que se use una distribución de teclado distinta a inglés, como es mi caso que utilizo la distribución español latinoamericano para usar el shortcut Alt + ?
tengo que usar esta combinación marcada en rojo.

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Thank you for reporting this. You're right -- not all of the shortcuts work on non-English layouts. That's a bug. We're working on it.

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