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The Basics
Opening and Switching Applications
Multi-tasking is easy with Android™ because open applications keep
running even when you open another application. There’s no need to quit an
application before opening another. You can use and switch among several
open applications. Android manages each application, stopping and starting
them as needed, to ensure that idle applications don’t consume resources
unnecessarily.
Opening an application
Open an application simply by tapping its icon on the screen.
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You can customize your Home screen with the application icons you use most often.
Applications are located on the Applications screen, but you can copy any application icon
to your Home screen for faster access. No matter where the icon is, on the Applications
screen or your Home screen, just tap it to open and use it.
Opening multiple applications
1. Tap an application icon to open it.
2. Tap the Home Key
.
NOTE
If the application icon you want is on your Home screen, simply tap the icon to open and
use it.
3. From the Home Screen, tap the Apps Key .
4. Tap the icon for the other application you want to open.
Switching between multiple applications
1. Tap and hold the Home Key . A screen with the icons of applications
that you’ve used recently will appear.
2. Tap the application icon you want to open or tap the Back Key
to
return to the current screen.
Tap a preview to open an application
you’ve used recently.
If you flick the application preview to the
right or left, the icon would disappear
from the recent app list.
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