Working with widgets – Samsung GT-P7100 User Manual

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Working with widgets

Widgets are miniature apps that you can place on your Home screens. Some widgets are standalone applications, some

open a related application when you touch them, and others provide a subset of useful information or controls for their

related applications.
Stock widgets include a clock, a Google Mail widget that displays recent messages, a music player, a picture frame, a

calendar that shows upcoming appointments, and so on. You can also download widgets from Android Market.
Browsing among available widgets and adding, moving, and removing them from you Home screens is described in

“Customizing Home screens on page 25.
Some widgets simply display information and or act as shortcuts for opening their applications, such as the Picture

Frame widget.
Some widgets give you controls to view and manage their application’s content, such as the Clock widget or the Music

Player widget.
Other widgets, such as the Calendar and Google Mail and Email widgets, are like miniature applications.
You can scroll information displayed by different widgets in different ways, for example, you can scroll up or down

among events in the Calendar widget, or with a carousel effect in the Books widget.

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