or “exclamation point.” Supported languages include English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian. To improve processing of your voice input, Google may record a few seconds of background noise in temporary memory at any time. This recording remains on the device only temporarily and is not sent to Google. To change your speech settings, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input.
4 Try some apps All Apps To see all your apps, touch All Apps in the Favorites tray on any Home screen. This is where you can see all your apps, including those that come with your tablet and those you downloaded on Google Play. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens. From All Apps, you can: • • • • • Move between screens. Swipe left or right. Open an app. Touch its icon. Place an app icon on a Home screen.
To view info about an app from an All Apps screen, touch & hold it, slide your finger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app App Info. over TIP: Some apps can harm you or your device. However, you don’t need to purchase anti-virus software for Google Play edition devices. Google can verify apps to help prevent harmful software from being installed. Gmail Use the Gmail app to read and write email from any mobile device. To open it, touch Gmail on a Home or All Apps screen.
• unread. Look under the Menu to move, change labels, mute, print and do other actions to the email. Swipe left or right to read the previous or next conversation. Organize your conversations: From the Inbox, touch & hold a conversation to select it. Then use the icons and menu along the top of the screen to manage the selected messages. To change your settings, add an account, or get help, touch the menu icon or button.
To change the settings of any of the accounts you added, follow these steps: 1. Open the Settings menu on your device. 2. Under “Personal,” touch “Accounts” and select your account. If you’re using a Google account, touch Google and then your account. Google Play Google Play brings together all your favorite apps & games, movies & TV shows, books, music, and news & magazines in one place, so you can reach it from any of your devices. To open the Google Play app, touch Google Play.
Google Play support For more details about Google Play, including email spport options, visit support.google.com/googleplay. Camera The Camera app lets you take photos, panoramic photos, videos, and immersive 360-degree photo sphere shots, including what’s above and below you. To open Camera: • • From the the lock screen, swipe from right to left. From the Home screen, touch Camera. The first time you open Camera, you may be asked if you want it to remember photo locations.
When you open Camera, you can choose from five different camera modes. To see the modes, swipe left to right. The Camera icon indicates Camera mode. To take a picture: 1. Frame your subject and watch for the focus ring. To focus on a different part of the image, touch it. To zoom in, pinch two fingers outwards. To zoom out, pinch two fingers inwards. 2. When the focus ring brackets disappear, touch the shutter button, which is the camera button. 3. To see the image you just took, swipe from right to left.
Photo Sphere To capture a 360-degree or wide angle shot, pan or tilt until the circle in the center of the screen moves over a blue dot and records that portion of the image. Keep moving over the dots until you’re finished, then touch the check mark at the bottom of the screen. Panorama Touch Panorama to begin taking a panoramic photo. Find your starting point, and touch the shutter to take the first picture in the panorama.
Photos The Photos app gives you instant access to all your photos and videos associated with any Google Account set up on your tablet. To open it, touch Photos. To open Photos from the: • • Camera app. Swipe from right to left. Photos. All Apps screen. Touch When you’re signed into your device with your Google Account, the Photos app makes it easy to auto-backup all the photos and videos you take, organize them, and share with friends.
Contacts The Contacts app gives you quick access to everyone you want to reach. To open it, touch the Contacts icon on a Home or All Apps screen. When you first turn on your device and sign into a Google Account, existing contacts from that account are synced with your Contacts app. After that, your contacts stay in sync automatically on your different devices or a Web browser. If you use Exchange, you can also sync that contact information with Contacts.
Hangouts With Hangouts, you can make video calls to anyone with a Google Account. You can share photos and your location with others. On some devices, Hangouts is also your default messaging app. Calendar Use the Calendar app to view and edit your schedule. To open it, touch Calendar on a Home or All Apps screen. When you first set up your Android device, you have a chance to configure it to use a Google Account (such as Gmail).
• • Open the event from the Calendar app at any time and touch Email guests. You have a list of quick responses or you can write your own. When a notification of the event arrives just before the meeting starts, swipe down the notification shade. Then swipe using one finger to expand the notification if necessary, and touch Email guests.
5 Settings Settings controls the core Android settings for networks, hardware, location, security, language, accounts, etc. The fastest way to adjust system settings that you access frequently, such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. See “Quick Settings” on page 7. You can control many other settings for your device and account by swiping down from the top of the screen twice and touching . These are the main types of device or account settings available.
Most apps also include their own settings, typically available menu on the upper left side of the app, or from the from the Menu > Settings. On Google Play edition devices, settings may be in the Menu button. Some useful settings are also available from the Google Settings app. The Google Settings app let you adjust adjust preferences for commonly used Google apps and services in one place, including Google+, Location, Search, and the Android Device Manager. To open Google Settings, touch the in All Apps.
6 Accessibility To use the accessibility options, open Accessibility. Settings > System > To view detailed information about setting up these options, visit Android Accessibility. Options for people with visual impairments include the following: Captions: You can turn on captions for your device and specify the language, text size, and style. For some apps, you have to turn on the captions in the app itself. TalkBack is a screen reader from Google that comes with your Android tablet.
Display and sound accessibility options include increasing the text size, changing the speed at which text is spoken, color inversion, color correction, and high contrast text. If you have low vision and don’t plan to use Explore by Touch, visit support.google.com/android to see Help content formatted for sighted users. You can make reading and navigating this material easier by increasing the text size – just open Chrome, go to Menu > Settings > Accessibility, and drag the slider to adjust the text size.
2. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
