Google ANDROID AUG-3.0-100 - Manual (Page 38)

Working with apps 38
AUG-3.0-100 Android User’s Guide
Opening and switching apps
Home’s Apps screen has icons for all of the apps on your tablet, including any apps
that you downloaded and installed from Android Market or other sources.
When you open an app, the other apps you’ve been using don’t stop; they keep on
running: playing music, opening webpages, and so on. You can quickly switch
among your apps, to work with several at once. The Android operating system and
apps work together to ensure that apps you aren’t using don’t consume resources
unnecessarily, stopping and starting them as needed. For this reason, there’s no
need to stop apps unless you’re certain that one you downloaded is misbehaving.
For details about how apps use memory and how you can manage them, see
“Managing how apps use memory” on page 40.
See “Market” on page 259 to learn how to discover and install additional apps
(including productivity tools, utilities, games, references, and many other kinds of
apps) on your tablet.
Open the Apps screen S In Home, touch the Apps button (at the top right).
If you have more apps than can fit on the Apps screen, you can slide the screen
left or right to view more.
You can add shortcut to an app to a Home screen by touching & holding the app
on the Apps screen until outlines of the Home screens appear below the app
icons. Then drag the app icon to a the Home screen. If you pause before
releasing your finger on a Home screen, that Home screen enlarges, so you can
place the shortcut where you want it.
You can also add shortcuts using the Customize screen; see “Customizing
Home screens” on page 31.
S Touch the Home button to close the Apps screen and return Home.
The Launcher closes automatically if you touch an icon to open its app.
Open an app S Touch an app's icon on the Apps screen.
OR
S Touch an app’s shortcut icon on a Home screen (if you added one there).