Chapter 3
How Android Tablets Work
In This Chapter
Working the touchscreen
Changing the volume
Getting around the Home screen
Checking notifications
Using Quick Settings
Running apps
Accessing recently used apps
Exploring common icons
It used to be that you could judge how advanced something was by how many buttons it had. Starting with the dress shirt and progressing to the first computer, more buttons meant fancier technology. Your Android tablet tosses that rule right out the window. Beyond the Power/Lock key and the volume key, the device is shamefully bereft of buttons.
My point is that in order to use your tablet, you have to understand how a touchscreen works. That touchscreen ...
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