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Your Home Screens

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Adding Application Shortcuts to Your Home Screen images Adding Application Shortcuts to Your Honeycomb Home Screen images Adding Widgets to Your Home Screen images Organizing Your Home Screen Shortcuts with Folders images 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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