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  • Page 2 V I S U A L Q U I C K S t A r t G U I D E Google Nexus 7 Tablet Chris Fehily Peachpit Press...
  • Page 3 Visual QuickStart Guide Google Nexus 7 Tablet Chris Fehily Peachpit Press 1249 Eighth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 510/524-2178 510/524-2221 (fax) Find us on the Web at www.peachpit.com. To report errors, please send a note to errata@peachpit.com. Peachpit Press is a division of Pearson Education.
  • Page 4 Using the Navigation Buttons ....11 Setting Up Your Nexus 7 ....13 Viewing and Changing Settings .
  • Page 5 ......Using Google Now ..... 88 Displaying and Managing Cards .
  • Page 6 ... . . Accessing the Google Play Store ... . .166 Getting Apps and Games....168 Playing Music .
  • Page 7 ....Using Google Maps ..... 182 Navigating the Map ..... 184 Viewing Location Details .

  • Page 8: Table Of Contents

    Working with Text The Nexus isn’t all scrolling, dragging, and In This Chapter zooming; it also offers an onscreen key- board and other tools for working with text. Using the Onscreen Keyboard This chapter shows you how to Using a Physical Keyboard Use onscreen or physical keyboards Setting Typing Options Type in other languages...

  • Page 9: Using The Onscreen Keyboard

    Using the Onscreen Keyboard An onscreen keyboard pops up auto- matically when you tap any area that accepts text. Use the keyboard to type notes, email, messages, Web addresses, passwords, search terms, contact informa- tion, or any other text. Typing is straightfor- ward: Tap a character to make it appear in the editing area.
  • Page 10 End-of-sentence shortcut. Double-tap the spacebar at the end of a sentence to end it with a period, move one space to the right, and start the next sentence with an uppercase letter. Accents and diacritical marks. You can touch and hold certain keys to see variants of their characters in a pop-up Touch and hold a key to see whether it offers .
  • Page 11 Context-sensitive Return key. The Return key changes to Go, Done, Next, , or , depending on whether you’re typing ordinary text, a Web or email address, a password, a search term, and so on. If a tiny ellipsis (...) appears on the Return key, you can tap (or touch and hold) the key to jump to the previous or next text field.

  • Page 12: Using A Physical Keyboard

    Using a Physical Using Other Input Devices Keyboard You can connect joysticks, gamepads, and other input devices to your Nexus. If you type a lot of text, work with large If they work without special drivers or documents, or just don’t like typing on adapters on your computer, they will glass, you can use a physical keyboard.

  • Page 13: Setting Typing Options

    Setting Typing Options The onscreen keyboard has several built-in shortcuts and tricks that you can turn on or off. Tap Settings > Language & Input and then tap next to Android Keyboard. The Android Keyboard Settings screen opens You can also open the Android Keyboard Settings screen directly from the keyboard: Tap the key (if it appears) or touch and...
  • Page 14 Auto Correction. Suggest words and corrections on the keyboard automati- cally as you type . In modest mode, tap a suggestion to accept it; to reject it, finish typing the word. In aggressive mode, Auto Correction replaces typos with suggestions automatically when you tap a space or punctuation charac- ter at the end of a word.

  • Page 15: Checking Spelling

    Checking Spelling If a misspelled word is flagged with a red underline, tap it to see replacement options . To configure the spell checker, tap Settings > Language & Input > Spell Checker. You can toggle the spell checker or set additional options by tapping Your personal dictionary contains a list of words that you don’t want to be autocor- rected or flagged as misspellings.

  • Page 16: Using International Keyboards

    Using International Keyboards If you communicate in more than one lan- guage, you can add keyboards to type in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and many more. You can switch keyboards at any time. The system language, which you chose when you set up your Nexus, is used for the screens, keyboard, and interface.
  • Page 17 To switch keyboards: 2. To add a Korean, Chinese, or Japanese keyboard, turn on Google Korean Key- Tap the Globe key repeatedly to cycle board, Google Pinyin, or iWnn IME. through your keyboards. Stop when you see the name of the desired keyboard on the spacebar.

  • Page 18: Selecting And Editing Text

    Selecting and The Clipboard Editing Text The clipboard is the invisible area of memory where the Nexus stores cut The basic text-editing operations are or copied content until it’s overwritten Select. Highlights text to edit, cut, copy, when you cut or copy something else. This scheme lets you paste the same or format.
  • Page 19 Selecting and editing text can work dif- ferently, depending on which app you’re using. In most cases, the rules are When you tap text in an editable area, a blinking insertion point indicates where new text will appear when you Drag the blue tab to position the insertion point where you need it to be.

  • Page 20: Dictating Text

    Dictating Text Google Voice Typing lets you dictate text instead of typing on the onscreen key- board. Dictation works with text areas in any app, without special setup or voice training. (For third-party apps, no additional developer support is required.) To practice, try dictating a message in Gmail.
  • Page 21 To dictate text: 1. Place the insertion point where you want the dictated text to appear. Dictation works in most places that you can enter text by using the keyboard. 2. Tap on the keyboard and then speak calmly The Nexus hears you through its built-in microphone.
  • Page 22 140 versions, 6 opening, 139–140 viewing options, 4 bookmarking Web pages, 139 App Info screen options books, getting from Google Play store, 176–177 Clear Cache, 38 brightness, adjusting, 27 Clear Data, 38 browser. See Chrome Web browser Disable, 38 buttons.
  • Page 23 112 email accounts, adding, 75 deleting, 119 Email app, 163 editing, 118 Emoji dictionaries, 52 eliminating duplicates, 120 encrypting Nexus 7, 45–46 exporting, 116 events. See Calendar filtering, 111 importing, 115–116 joining, 120 Factory Data Reset, 78...
  • Page 24 9–10 signing into, 14 gift cards, using in Google Play store, 167 Wallet, 14 Gmail email app Google apps, folder contained in, 24. See also apps Account settings, 162 Google Currents magazine app, 178 archiving conversations, 156 Google Earth, 201...
  • Page 25 Mac, USB connection to, 81 Google Talk app, 164 magazines Google Wallet, 167 free trials, 178 getting from Google Play store, 178–179 Google Currents app, 178 headset jack, 3 mail. See Gmail email app high-definition TV (HDTV), watching video on, 174...
  • Page 26 Micro-USB port, 3 weight, 2 mobile hotspots, 40, 65 wireless, 2 mouse, using, 10 notification bar, 3, 25 movies, playing, from Google Play store, 174–175 notification shade, 84 multitouch gestures, 9–10 notifications. See also status bar music, playing, 172–173 managing, 85–86...
  • Page 27 98–99 returning apps for refunds, 170 voice settings, 107 searching for apps, 168 search app. See Google Now search app sharing apps, 169 Search Engine option, accessing in Chrome, 133 shopping in, 167 search provider, changing default, 133...
  • Page 28 3, 25 storage, 2, 36 wake feature, activating, 7 store credits, using in Google Play store, 167 wallpaper, changing, 28 swipe gesture, 9 Web, searching with Chrome, 133 sync options, configuring, 76–77 Web browser. See Chrome Web browser...