Getting To Know Home - Google Android 3.0 User Manual

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Getting to know Home

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After you finish setting up your tablet, Home opens.
Home is your starting point for all the features of your tablet. You can use the
Customize button to add shortcuts to apps, widgets, and other features to your
Home screens, and to change the wallpaper (see "Customizing Home screens" on
page 31.)
At the top of the screen, Home displays:
Search and Voice Search
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web by typing or speaking (see "Google Search" on page 77)
The Apps button
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switching apps" on page 38)
The Customize button
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tomizing Home screens" on page 31
At the bottom of the screen, the System bar displays:
The Back , Home
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among your apps (see "Using the Navigation buttons" on page 20)
Notification icons, the time, and Status icons (see "Monitoring your tablet's sta-
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tus" on page 23 and "Managing notifications" on page 24).
S Touch the Home button
Slide your finger left or right across the current Home screen.
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The other Home screens provide more space for widgets, shortcuts, and other
items. For more on sliding, see "Using the touchscreen" on page 19.
Touch the Home button
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buttons to search your tablet and the
to find all your installed apps (see "Opening and
for adding items to your Home screens (see "Cus-
, and Recent Apps buttons, for navigating
in the System bar at any time, in any app.
to return to the central Home screen.
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