Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual

Managing, Sharing, and Uninstalling Apps

After a while, you may suffer from app overload: You’ve downloaded so many apps you don’t know what to do with them. It’s time to get them under control.

A single location helps you do that. From the Home screen, tap the Notification Panel and then select Settings→ Applications→Manage applications. You see a list of your apps, including their names and file sizes, categorized in three tabs:

• Downloaded. Apps you’ve downloaded and installed.

• All. The mega-list of your Galaxy Tab’s apps, both built-ins and those you’ve downloaded.

• Running. Apps currently running on your Galaxy Tab.

Tip

You can sort the app list either by alphabetical name or size. Tap the “Sort by size” and “Sort by name” buttons to change the way they’re sorted.

Tap any app, and you come to a screen chock-full of information about it—its version number, its total size, the size of any data associated with it, the size of the program itself, and, toward the bottom of the screen, information about what kinds of features and data it uses.

You can uninstall the app by tapping the Uninstall button. You can also share the app with others via email or text message, although you don’t actually send the app itself. Instead, you send information about the app including its description, size, and where it can be downloaded. Just tap the Share button. If a friend expresses curiosity about an app ...