Android Tablets For Dummies

355 Pages·2016·28.6 MB·English

by  Dan Gookin

Android®
Tablets

®
Android
Tablets
4th edition
by Dan Gookin
Android® Tablets For Dummies®, 4th Edition
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part 1: Getting Started with Android Tablets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
CHAPTER 1: That Out-of-the-Box Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
CHAPTER 2: Android Tablet On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CHAPTER 3: How Android Tablets Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
CHAPTER 4: Creating and Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Part 2: Stay in Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER 5: All Your Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
CHAPTER 6: You’ve Got Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER 7: Tablet Web Browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
CHAPTER 8: Text, Voice, and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
CHAPTER 9: Digital Social Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Part 3: Omni Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
CHAPTER 10: There’s a Map for That . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
CHAPTER 11: Everyone Say “Cheese!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
CHAPTER 12: Image Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
CHAPTER 13: Music, Music, Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
CHAPTER 14: Amazing Tablet Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
CHAPTER 15: Google Play Shopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Part 4: Nuts & Bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
CHAPTER 16: It’s a Wireless Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
CHAPTER 17: Connect, Share, and Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
CHAPTER 18: Apps and Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
CHAPTER 19: Customize Your Android Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
CHAPTER 20: Android Tablet Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
CHAPTER 21: On the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
CHAPTER 22: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Part 5: The Part of Tens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
CHAPTER 23: Ten Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
CHAPTER 24: Ten Things to Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
CHAPTER 25: Ten Nifty Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How to Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Foolish Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Icons Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH ANDROID TABLETS . . . . . 7
CHAPTER 1: That Out-of-the-Box Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Initial Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Liberating the tablet from the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Tablet Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Finding things on the tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Inserting the microSD card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Removing the microSD card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Optional Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Where to Keep Your Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Making a home for the tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Taking the Android tablet with you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
CHAPTER 2: Android Tablet On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Greetings, Android Tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Turning on your tablet for the first time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Turning on the tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Unlocking the tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Working the Lock screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Unlocking and running an app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Add Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The End of Your Android Tablet Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Locking the tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Turning off your Android tablet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
CHAPTER 3: How Android Tablets Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Basic Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Touching the touchscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the navigation icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Setting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing the orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Selecting a group of items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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There’s No Place Like Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Touring the Home screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Accessing multiple Home screen pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Reviewing notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Making Quick Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
The World of Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Starting an app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Quitting an app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Finding an app in the Apps drawer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Switching between running apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Common Android Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
CHAPTER 4: Creating and Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Behold the Onscreen Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Everybody Was Touchscreen Typing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Typing one character at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Accessing special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using predictive text to type quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Typing without lifting your finger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Android Tablet Dictation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Speaking instead of typing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Uttering s**** words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Text Editing and Correcting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Moving the cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Selecting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Cutting, copying, and pasting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Dealing with spelling errrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
PART 2: STAY IN TOUCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER 5: All Your Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Tablet’s Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using the address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sorting the address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Searching contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Even More Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Building a contact from scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Creating a contact from an email message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Importing contacts from a computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Manage Your Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Editing contact information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Adding a contact’s picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Making a favorite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Joining identical contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Separating contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Removing a contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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