Motorola XOOM - Home Screen; Zoom & Screen Rotation; Home Screen Features

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Chapter One:
How Do I Get Started with the Motorola Xoom?
SWiping, FliCking, tapping, and
Other tOUCh teChniqUeS
You use touch techniques to navigate the Xoom’s five Home screens and apps
and menus. You can learn techniques specific to apps as you work through
this book. You need to know the basic techniques to start though, and follow-
ing are a few of the techniques you can immediately apply:
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flick, also called a swipe, is a quick motion in which you move your
finger quickly from le to right, right to le, boom to top, or top to
boom. Use this gesture to move from one Home screen to another; to
move among pages in an e-book; to move from one picture to another
in a picture folder; to scroll through a long web page; and more.
You
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tap, hold, and drag an icon to move it. You can drag an icon to
another area of the screen or to a new screen.
You
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tap once to open an app. You can also tap once in a video to view it
in full-screen mode and tap again to return to regular viewing; tap once
on text to access menus such as Select, Select All, Copy, and Paste; and
tap once in an app to show or hide controls.
You can
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double-tap to zoom in on a photo, video, or web page. Another
double-tap zooms out.
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pinch with your thumb and forefinger (either by pinching outward or
inward) is used to zoom in and out.
rOtating, Flipping, and tWiSting
Beyond what you can do with a single finger or two, you can physically reposi-
tion your Xoom to change the view. You can rotate the Xoom 90 degrees in any
direction to change the view from portrait to landscape and back. Figure 1-12
shows Portrait view—a view I rarely use. The reason I avoid this view is because,
in some apps like Gmail, what is a split screen in Landscape view becomes a sin-
gle screen in Portrait view, making it necessary to use the Back buon regularly
to navigate the interface.