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    Essential Android Tablets: The Illustrated Guide to Using Android
    Essential Android Tablets: The Illustrated Guide to Using Android
    Essential Android Tablets: The Illustrated Guide to Using Android
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    Essential Android Tablets: The Illustrated Guide to Using Android

    By Kevin Wilson

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    The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out every month, most users don’t have time to keep up or figure everything out on their own and it can be quite overwhelming.


    With full color screen prints, photographs and illustrations, this guide explores...


    Setting up your tablet, setting up and transferring your data.


    Getting to know Android; the app dock, drawer, icons, and menus


    Arranging icons, the on-screen keyboard and Google assistant


    Navigating with touch gestures: tap, drag, and swipe


    Communicating with Hangouts and GMail


    Browsing the web with the Chrome web browser


    Taking portrait and panoramic photos, as well as recording video


    Editing and enhancing your photos


    Listening to music, from the play store


    Downloading TV Programmes and Movies


    Downloading and installing apps from the play store


    Google Maps, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Contacts


    Setting up cloud enabled printers and printing documents


    With comprehensive instruction for many commonly used tablets, this step-by-step guide allows readers to digest information quickly and easily without feeling confused, wasting time, and getting discouraged.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElluminet Press
    Release dateNov 12, 2018
    ISBN9781911174776
    Essential Android Tablets: The Illustrated Guide to Using Android
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    Kevin Wilson

    Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Nothing to See Here, and The Family Fang, as well as two story collections. His work has received the Shirley Jackson Award and been selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.

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      Essential Android Tablets - Kevin Wilson

      About the Author

      Kevin Wilson has made a career out of technology and showing others how to use it. After earning a master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, and multimedia systems, Kevin worked as a tutor and college instructor, helping students master such subjects as multimedia, computer literacy and information technology. He currently serves as Elluminet Press Publishing’s senior writer and director, he periodically teaches computing at college in South Africa and serves as an IT trainer in England.

      Kevin’s motto is clear: If you can’t explain something simply, you haven’t understood it well enough. To that end, he has created the Computer Essentials series, in which he breaks down complex technological subjects into smaller, easy-to-follow steps that students and ordinary computer users can put into practice.

      Table of Contents

      What is a Android? 12

      Setting up your Device 14

      Power Up & Power Down 14

      Wake & Unlock your Tablet 15

      Force Shutdown 16

      Charging the Battery 17

      Initial Setup 18

      Transfer Data from Another Android 24

      Transfer Data from an iPhone/iPad 36

      Connecting to the Internet 42

      Wi-Fi 42

      Setting up Email Accounts 45

      Adding Printers 50

      Getting around Android 54

      The Home Screen 54

      Touch Gestures 55

      Tap 56

      Drag 56

      Scroll 57

      Pinch & Spread 58

      Swipe 59

      Swipe from top Edge of Screen 60

      Home Button 62

      Back Button 63

      Multi-task Button 63

      App Dock 66

      App Drawer 67

      Arranging Icons 68

      The On-screen Keyboard 69

      Google Assistant 70

      Voice Dictation 75

      Internet, Email & Communication 76

      Using Chrome 76

      Searching the Web 79

      Bookmarking Websites 80

      Browsing History 82

      Downloads 83

      Desktop vs Mobile Site 84

      Using Gmail 85

      Reading your Email 87

      Replying to an Email 88

      Forward an Email 90

      Add an Attachment 92

      Contacts 94

      View Contact Details 94

      Edit Details 96

      Add New Contact 97

      Add Contact from Message 98

      Calendar 101

      Calendar View 103

      Add Event 104

      Google Hangouts 110

      Calling New Contacts 111

      Video Calls 114

      Using Multimedia 118

      Camera App 118

      Taking Pictures 120

      Panoramic Photos 121

      Camera Options 123

      Recording Video 126

      Photos App 127

      Adjusting Images 131

      Crop an Image 133

      Creating Collages 135

      Sharing Photos 137

      Play Music 140

      Streaming Music 140

      Creating Playlists 144

      Buying Tracks 146

      Play Movies & TV 148

      Using Apps 152

      Play Store 152

      Search for Apps 155

      Browsing the Store 157

      Google Drive 159

      Creating Folders 162

      Moving Files 163

      New Documents 164

      Scanning Documents 165

      Sharing Documents 167

      Printing Documents 169

      Google Maps 171

      Map Type 172

      Exploring Maps & Getting Directions 173

      Google Docs 178

      Installing Google Docs 178

      Starting Google Docs 179

      Using Paragraph Styles 184

      Headings 184

      Bold, Italic, Underlined 185

      Changing Fonts 186

      Font Colour 187

      Justify Text 188

      Bullets and Numbered Lists 189

      Cut, Copy & Paste 190

      Adding Images 191

      Resize Images 193

      Adding Tables 194

      Google Sheets 196

      Installing Google Sheets 196

      Starting Google Sheets 197

      Entering Data 200

      Simple Text Formatting 200

      Insert a Row 201

      Insert a Column 202

      Cell Borders 203

      Cell Shading 204

      Using Functions 205

      What is a Android?

      Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, and is designed to run on smartphones and tablets.

      Each major version has a dessert-based codename, and they appear in alphabetical order.

      Android 1.5 Cupcake (mid-2009)

      Android 1.6 Donut (late 2009)

      Android 2.0 & 2.1 Eclair (late 2009)

      Android 2.2 Froyo (mid-2010)

      Android 2.3 Gingerbread (late 2010)

      Android 3.x Honeycomb (early 2011)

      Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (late 2011)

      Android 4.1 to 4.3 Jelly Bean (mid-2012)

      Android 4.4 KitKat (late 2013)

      Android 5.0 Lollipop (late 2014)

      Android 6.0 Marshmallow (late 2015)

      Android 7.x Nougat (2016)

      Android 8.0 Oreo (2017)

      Android 9.0 Pie (2018)

      There are hundreds of Android devices from different manufacturers to choose from, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Acer Iconia, Sony Xperia, Google Nexus, Archos, and Asus ZenPad to name a few.

      Each manufacturer’s implementation of Android looks slightly different, however the basic operation is the same.

      Here is a Samsung Galaxy and a Google Nexus.

      As you can see, they are slightly different, but have the same basic functions. You still have the status bar along the top, the Google search bar - although this can be in different positions, and they all have app icons along the bottom of the screen.

      The differences can be minor. The Samsung Galaxy has hardware buttons on the bottom, whereas the Nexus has them on the screen.

      The Google search bar is on the top on some models and in the middle on others. Some models have a clock and weather apps on the home screen - as on the Samsung Galaxy.

      Setting up your Device

      If you’ve just bought your new Tablet and taken it out the box, the process to set it up to use for the first time is very simple. You don’t even have to connect it to your computer.

      In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the process of setting up your Tablet, when you turn it on for the first time.

      Power Up & Power Down

      To wake your tablet from sleep, just press and release the power button once - don’t hold it down.

      If your tablet has been shut down, press and hold the power button for a couple of seconds until the screen lights up.

      The power button is usually on the top edge of your tablet.

      To put your tablet to sleep, just press and release the power button once - don’t hold it down.

      To completely

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