CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com Android Tablets ™ 3rd Edition CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com Android Tablets ™ 3rd Edition by Dan Gookin CuuDuongThanCong.com Android™ Tablets For Dummies® 3rd Edition Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030‐5774, www.wiley.com Copyright © 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748‐6011, fax (201) 748‐6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions Trademarks: 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That 123 Chapter 11: Everyone Say “Cheese!” 137 Chapter 12: Image Management 149 Chapter 13: Music, Music, Music 161 Chapter 14: Amazing Tablet Feats 175 Chapter 15: Play Store Shopping 189 Part IV: Nuts and Bolts 201 Chapter 16: It’s a Wireless Life 203 Chapter 17: Connect, Share, and Store 215 Chapter 18: Apps and Widgets 229 Chapter 19: Customize Your Android Tablet 243 Chapter 20: Android Tablet Security 255 Chapter 21: On the Road 265 Chapter 22: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Help 271 Part V: The Part of Tens 283 Chapter 23: Ten Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts 285 Chapter 24: Ten Things to Remember 295 Index 301 CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com Table of Contents Introduction About This Book How to Use This Book Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Part I: Getting Started with Android Tablets Part II: Stay in Touch Part III: Omni Tablet Part IV: Nuts and Bolts Part V: The Part of Tens Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here Part I: Getting Started with Android Tablets Chapter 1: That Out‐of‐the‐Box Experience Initial Procedures Liberating the tablet from the box Charging the battery 11 Tablet Exploration 12 Finding things on the tablet 12 Inserting a 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 Android tablet for the first time 20 Turning on the tablet 22 Unlocking the tablet 22 Working the screen lock 22 Unlocking and running an app 24 More Accounts 25 The End of Your Android Tablet Day 27 Locking the tablet 27 Turning off your Android tablet 28 CuuDuongThanCong.com viii Android Tablets For Dummies Chapter 3: How Android Tablets Work 29 Basic Operations 29 Touching the touchscreen 30 Using the navigation icons 30 Setting the volume 32 Changing the orientation 33 There’s No Place Like Home Screen 34 Touring the Home screen 34 Accessing multiple Home screens 36 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 42 Switching between running apps 42 Common Android Icons 43 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 Typing quickly by using predictive text 51 Typing without lifting your finger 53 Android Tablet Dictation 53 Speaking instead of typing 54 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 58 Part II: 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 CuuDuongThanCong.com Notes CuuDuongThanCong.com Notes CuuDuongThanCong.com Notes CuuDuongThanCong.com Notes CuuDuongThanCong.com About the Author Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for over 25 years He combines his love of writing with his gizmo fascination to create books that are informative, entertaining, and not boring Having written over 130 titles with 12 million copies in print translated into over 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes seems to work Perhaps his most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991 It became the world’s fastest‐selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number‐one bestseller (though, as a reference, it could not be listed on the Times’ Best Sellers list) That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day Dan’s most popular titles include PCs For Dummies, Word For Dummies, Laptops For Dummies, and Android Phones For Dummies He also maintains the vast and helpful website www.wambooli.com Dan holds a degree in Communications/Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys spending time with his sons playing video games indoors while they enjoy the gentle woods of Idaho CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com Publisher’s Acknowledgments Acquisitions Editor: Katie Mohr Project Coordinator: Kumar Chellapa Senior Project Editor: Paul Levesque Cover Image: Yeko Photo Studio/Shutterstock, Kirill M/Shutterstock, Feaspb/ Shutterstock, kentoh/iStockphoto Copy Editor: Rebecca Whitney Editorial Assistant: Claire Brock Sr Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com CuuDuongThanCong.com WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT Go to www.wiley.com/go/eula to access Wiley’s ebook EULA CuuDuongThanCong.com ... Figure 1-1 , which is my attempt at illustrating a generic Android tablet’s hardware features Use this figure as a guide as you follow along on your own tablet to locate some key features Figure 1-1 :... (refer to the left side of Figure 1-1 ) On small‐format tablets, the camera is on top when the tablet is oriented vertically (refer to the right side of Figure 1-1 ) Navigation icons: The bottom... device, as illustrated in Figure 2-1 If a more secure lock is set, you’ll need to work it next CuuDuongThanCong.com Chapter 2: Android Tablet On and Off Figure 2-1 : The lock screen, featuring