Getting startedThe first st ep s
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Fig 1 Simply ta p the screen to select t hi ng s
Fig 2 Tap and hold to scroll up and down
Fig 3 Pull your finger across the screen
Fig 4 Press and hold for a long-press
Fig 5 Reverse the pinch to zoom in
Hand gestures
on your Galaxy
There are many ways in which you can interact with
your Gal axy’s touchscreen interface…
1 Tap Wh en you want some thi ng to hap pen with your Gal axy you g eneral l y hav e
to touch the screen, and arguably the most basic of all the gestures is the tap
(Fig 1). You tap to open an application, make a menu selection, activate a link in
a web page, open an image or music track, and lots more too. Just press your
finger down in the required spot and the device will recognise it.
3 Swipe The swipe is a neat little gesture that’s the counterpart of the scroll (Fig
3). We don’t really call it a scroll, though, because devices like to use this gesture
to quickly flick between adjacent screens, whether they’re home screens on
your device or pages inside an application. Just tap and slide to try it.
5 Pinch The pinch gesture i s a really c lever one. You’ll use it to zoom out a nd
make text or an image smaller. Simply put two fingers on the screen quite a way
apart from each other when you have an image or web page showing on the
screen, and then pull them towards each other to make what you are viewing
smaller. Use it alongside the s pr e ad gesture f or ev en more con tr ol.
2 Scroll When there’s more information than you can see on a single screen,
you have to scroll up and down to get to it. Hold a finger on the screen, move
it vertically and the screen moves (Fig 2). You might scroll horizontally too – to
move around image files or web pages, for example – but you will use the
ve rti c al scroll to glance through emails, s ettings screen s, news feed s and mo re.
4 Drag (long-press) As well as tap ping the screen to make thi n gs happen , you
can also long-pres s. Thi s me a n s putting your finger on someth ing and holding
it down, and often allows you to drag your selected item around ( Fig 4). You’ll
most likely u se the long-pres s to move icons around, draggi ng them between
different home screens or to the trash icon to remove them fr om home screens,
or inside the app drawer to put them on home screens in the first place.
6 Spread The sprea d gestur e is best used wi th t h e pinch . Use i t to zoom in a n d
make text or an image larger. Put two fingers on the screen close to each other
whe n there’s a n image or web page s howing, th en p ush them away from ea ch
other to make what you are viewing larger (Fig 5). Before you know it, the hand
gestures that you use to operate your Galaxy will become second nature.
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