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Your Home Screens
The Skim
Adding Application Shortcuts to Your Home Screen Adding Application Shortcuts to Your Honeycomb Home Screen Adding Widgets to Your Home Screen Organizing Your Home Screen Shortcuts with Folders Changing the Wallpaper
When I teach introductory Windows classes, one of the first things students always want to learn is how to customize their desktop. I have, in fact, always been amazed by the number of students who take two or three classes on something else entirely and yet customize the desktop on the training center's computers. Your Android device offers almost as much customization as your computer. As with your computer, you can change most of the appearance of the device to make it more of an extension of your personality.
ADDING APPLICATION SHORTCUTS TO YOUR HOME SCREENS PRE-HONEYCOMB
Note that the following section applies to devices running Gingerbread or earlier. If you have a tablet running Honeycomb, please skip to the next section.
Once installed, ...
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