User's Manual

10
Using the touch screen
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
touch screen. You can also change the screen’s orientation.
• Touch To act on items on the screen, such as app 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.
• 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.
• 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Homescreenleftorrightto
view the other parts, and in some Calendar views you slide to view earlier or
later periods.
• 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appsreflowsacolumnoftexttofitthewidthofthescreen.
• PinchInsomeapps(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 tablet as you turn it. You can turn this feature on and off in settings
menu.
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