User's Manual

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Working with 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 source s. When you open an app, the other apps you’ve been using
don’t stop; they keep on running: playing music, opening web pages, and so on. Y o u 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 ar en ’ t using don’t consume resour ces un necessar il y , 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
mi sbe h a v ing .
Open the Apps Screen
In Home, touch the Apps button at the top right of the screen.
If you have more apps than can fit on the Apps screen, you can slide the sc re en left or right to view m o re .
Y o u can add shortcut to an app to a Home screen by touching & holding the ap p on the Apps screen until
outlines of the Home screens appear below the app icons. Then drag the app icon to the Home screen. If
you pause before releasing your finger on a Home screen, that Home screen enlarges , so you ca n place the
shortcut where you want i t .
Uninstall an App
Y o u can uninstall apps you downloaded from Market and other sources.
 Open the Manage Applications screen .
 Touch the Downloads tab .
 Touch the app you want to un i n stal l .
 Touch the Uninstall bu tt on .
 Touch OK in the screen that asks you to confirm you want to uninstall the ap p .