User's Manual

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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.
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Touch Many things shown on the screen will respond to being touched. Enter
text by touching letters on the onscreen keyboard, open apps by touching
their icons, and touch onscreen buttons to activate them.
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Touch & hold If you touch and hold your finger on an onscreen item a menu of
options or actions will usually appear.
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Drag To move an item, touch and hold it for a moment and then, without
lifting your finger, move your finger on the screen until you reach the target
position.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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 the settings
menu.