Owner manual
Table Of Contents
- About this guide
- Android basics
- Starting Android for the first time
- Getting to know the Home screen
- Using the touchscreen
- Using the phone’s buttons
- Using a trackball
- Working with menus
- Monitoring your phone’s status
- Managing notifications
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Entering text by speaking
- Editing text
- Opening and switching applications
- Locking your screen
- Customizing the Home screen
- Connecting quickly with your contacts
- Optimizing battery life
- Managing how applications use memory
- Managing downloads
- Connecting to networks and devices
- Placing and receiving calls
- Searching by text and voice
- Contacts
- Accounts
- Gmail
- Gmail version and availability
- Gmail is different
- Opening Gmail and your Inbox
- Reading your messages
- Composing and sending a message
- Replying to or forwarding a message
- Working with Priority Inbox
- Working with conversations in batches
- Starring a message
- Labeling a conversation
- Viewing conversations by label
- Synchronizing your conversations by label
- Reporting spam
- Searching for messages
- Archiving conversations
- Appending a signature to your messages
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- Changing Gmail settings
- Calendar
- Viewing your calendar and events
- Working in Agenda view
- Working in Day view
- Working in Week view
- Working in Month view
- Viewing event details
- Creating an event
- Editing an event
- Deleting an event
- Setting an event reminder
- Responding to an event reminder
- Synchronizing and displaying calendars
- Changing Calendar settings
- Google Voice
- Google Talk
- Messaging
- Browser
- Maps, Navigation, Places, and Latitude
- Opening Maps
- Viewing My Location and location services
- Searching, exploring, and starring places
- Using the Places feature in the Launcher
- Changing map layers
- Getting directions
- Navigating with Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
- Previewing and changing views of your route
- Finding your friends with Google Latitude
- Camera
- Gallery
- YouTube
- Music
- News & Weather
- Clock
- Car Home
- Calculator
- Tags
- Market
- Opening Android Market and finding applications
- Downloading and installing applications
- Managing your downloads
- View your downloaded applications
- Set whether an application is updated automatically
- Respond to a notification that application updates are available
- Set whether you’re notified about updated applications
- Uninstall an application
- Request a refund for an application
- Rate or comment on an application
- Flag inappropriate applications
- Settings
- Opening Settings
- Wireless & networks
- Call settings
- Sound settings
- Display settings
- Location & security settings
- Use wireless networks
- Use GPS satellites
- Set up screen lock
- Set unlock pattern
- Change unlock pattern
- Use visible pattern
- Use tactile feedback
- Set unlock PIN
- Change unlock PIN
- Set unlock password
- Change unlock password
- Turn off screen lock
- Set up SIM card lock
- Visible passwords
- Select device administrators
- Use secure credentials
- Install from SD card
- Install from USB storage
- Set password
- Clear storage
- Applications settings
- Accounts & sync settings
- Privacy settings
- Storage settings
- Language & keyboard settings
- Voice input & output settings
- Accessibility settings
- Dock settings
- Date & time settings
- About phone
Android basics 22
AUG-2.3-103 Android User’s Guide
Using the touchscreen
The main way to control Android features is by using your finger to manipulate icons,
buttons, menu items, the onscreen keyboard, and other items on the touchscreen. You
can also change the screen’s orientation.
Touch To act on items on the screen, such as application and settings icons, to type
letters and symbols using the onscreen keyboard, or to press onscreen buttons, you
simply touch them with your finger.
Touch & hold Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting
your finger until an action occurs. For example, to open a menu for customizing the
Home screen, you touch an empty area on the Home screen until the menu opens.
Drag Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without lifting your finger, move
your finger on the screen until you reach the target position. You drag items on the
Home screen to reposition them, as described in “Customizing the Home screen” on
page 43, and you drag to open the Notifications panel, as described in “Managing
notifications” on page 29.
Swipe or slide To swipe or slide, you quickly move your finger across the surface
of the screen, without pausing when you first touch it (so you don’t drag an item
instead). For example, you slide the screen up or down to scroll a list, and in some
Calendar views you swipe quickly across the screen to change the range of time
visible.
Double-tap Tap quickly twice on a webpage, map, or other screen to zoom. For
example, you double-tap a section of a webpage in Browser to zoom that section to fit
the width of the screen. Double-tapping after pinching to zoom in some applications,
such as Browser, reflows a column of text to fit the width of the screen.
Pinch In some applications (such as Maps, Browser, and Gallery), you can zoom in
and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and pinching them together (to
zoom out) or spreading them apart (to zoom in).
Rotate the screen On most screens, the orientation of the screen rotates with the
phone as you turn it from upright to its side and back again. You can turn this feature
on and off, as described in “Display settings” on page 364.