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- Page 1 ANDROID Quick Start Guide Android Mobile Technology Platform 4.4, KitKat®...
- Page 2 Android version or System updates. If you don’t have a Nexus or Google Play edition phone or tablet and are running Android 4.4 on some other device, some details of the system as described in this book may vary. For comprehensive online help and support, including details about Nexus...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of contents Welcome to Android About Android 4.4 Set up your device Make yourself at home Get around Organize your Home screens Touch & type Help & support Android version & updates Essentials Google Now Tell Google what to do Notifications &... - Page 4 Try some apps All Apps Google Play Phone Gmail Gallery Photos People Hangouts & SMS Calendar Settings Accessibility ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE...
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Page 5: Welcome To Android
) is the latest version of the world’s favorite ® operating system for mobile phones and tablets. This guide introduces the Android 4.4 software available on Nex- us and Google Play edition mobile devices. It doesn’t describe hardware details such as SIM card instructions, battery informa- tion, specs, and so on. -
Page 6: Make Yourself At Home
When prompted, you can sign in with your Google Account or create one at that time. You can also choose to skip this step and create one later. An email address that you use for any of the following counts as a Google Account: •... -
Page 7: Get Around
• To send an SMS message from a phone, use Hangouts. • From the Home screen, say “Ok Google” to search your phone or the Internet and start telling Google what to do (Nexus 5 only). Or touch Google at the top of the screen to do the same thing. - Page 8 To open an app, touch it. To drag an app in or out of the Favorites tray or anywhere else on a Home screen, touch & hold it, then move it with your finger into position. Nexus navigation buttons At the bottom of every Nexus screen, no matter what you’re do- ing, you’ll always find the navigation bar with three buttons: Back Opens the previous screen you were working in, even...
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Page 9: Organize Your Home Screens
Google Play edition navigation buttons Some Google Play edition devices have two or three physical buttons just below the screen: • Menu: This button opens options depending on the screen you’re on. • Home: Opens Home. If you’re viewing a left or right Home screen, opens the main Home screen. - Page 10 NEXUS 5 TIPS: The Home screens on Nexus 5 work differ- ently from Home screens on the other Nexus devices. • To change your wallpaper, add a widget, adjust Search settings, or change screen order, touch & hold the back- ground of any Home screen.
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Page 11: Touch & Type
To create a folder, slide one icon quickly over another. To name or rename a folder, open it and touch its name. Touch & type To select or activate something, touch it. To type something, such as a name, password, or search terms, just touch where you want to type. -
Page 12: Help & Support
Google Play edition phones, this menu may be available from a button below the main screen. This book introduces just a few of the key features and apps that come with Android 4.4. For more details about Android software ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE WELCOME TO ANDROID... -
Page 13: Android Version & Updates
If you don’t have a Nexus or Google Play edition phone or tablet and are running Android 4.4 on some other device, some details of the system as described in this book may vary. -
Page 14: Essentials
Essentials Google Now Google Now is about getting you just the right information, at just the right time. It tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and even your favorite team’s score while they’re playing. - Page 15 How it works When you decide to use Google Now, you’re also turning on Location Reporting and Location History: • Location Reporting allows Google to periodically store and use your device’s most recent location data in connection with your Google Account. Location Reporting is a per-device setting.
- Page 16 status, and so on. To manage your Web History, visit google. com/history/. You can delete or pause your Web History and still use Google Now, but certain kinds of information, such as flight details, won’t show up. Similarly, Google Now can use data that you may have stored in third-party products that you allow Google to access.
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Page 17: Tell Google What To Do
NEXUS 5 TIP: To dismiss a card on Nexus 5, swipe from left to right. Swiping from right to left returns you to the main Home screen. Updates appear in the form of Google Now cards. When you don’t need a card any more, swipe it out of the way. That’s all there is to it. -
Page 18: Voice Search
IMPORTANT: To detect when you say “Ok Google” to launch Voice Search or Voice Actions, Google analyzes sound picked up by your device’s microphone in intervals of a few seconds or less. The sound is immediately dis- carded after analysis and is not stored on the device or sent to Google. -
Page 19: Notifications & Settings
Voice Actions Voice Actions are supported only in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. You can use Voice Actions to perform common tasks, such as sending an email or opening an app. After touching the Microphone icon or saying “Ok Google,” speak the Voice Action you want to use. - Page 20 Pending Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, notifications mobile network, & battery status TIP: Wi-Fi and mobile signal strength are indicated at the top of the screen by white bars. To see whether the se- lected Wi-Fi network has a full Internet connection, open Quick Settings: swipe down from the top right on tablets, or with two fingers on phones.
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Page 21: Quick Settings
top is always expanded when possible. To expand a notification, position one finger inside it and swipe down slowly. To open the related app, touch the notification icon on the left. Some notifications also allow you to take specific actions by touching icons within the notification. -
Page 22: Lock Screen
• On tablets: Swipe down from the top right corner of any screen • On phones: Swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers On a Nexus 4 or Nexus 5, Quick Settings look like this. Switch to notifications Open all settings... -
Page 23: Face Unlock
You can set locks of different strengths using lock settings: Settings > Personal > Security > Screen lock. 1. Go to 2. Touch the type of lock you’d like to use. Lock screen actions From the lock screen: • If you have a tablet that’s set up for more than one user, you may need to touch your image at the bottom of the screen to see your own lock screen. -
Page 24: Android Beam
Android Beam You can beam a web page, a video, or other content from your screen to another device by bringing the devices together (typi- cally back to back). Before you begin: Make sure both devices are unlocked, sup- port Near Field Communication (NFC), and have both NFC and Android Beam turned on. -
Page 25: Printing
Beam and won’t include certain apps, such as money transfer apps. Printing WIth Android 4.4, you can print the content of certain screens (such as web pages displayed in Chrome) to a printer on the same Wi-FI network as your Android device. -
Page 26: Chromecast
From here, you can open each available service to turn it on or off, check which printers it makes available, add new printers, and adjust the service’s settings. To print a document, such as a webpage in Chrome: 1. Touch Menu > Print. 2. -
Page 27: File Storage
File storage Android 4.4 makes it easy to store and browse through pictures, videos, and other files on your device and attach them to an email, Hangout messsage, and so on. You can also use stored images as your Home screen wallpaper. -
Page 28: Android Device Manager
• Gallery lets you browse all the images and videos that have been uploaded to your account. Use the Downloads app to view, reopen, or delete files you download from Gmail or other sources (excluding Google Play books, videos, magazines, and other media.) Downloads In the Downloads app:... -
Page 29: Screenshots
Then, if you lose your device, go to Android Device Manager follow the instructions. Screenshots To take a screenshot from Nexus or Google Play edition devices: 1. Make sure the image you want to capture is displayed on the screen. 2. -
Page 30: Use The Keyboard
Use the keyboard Enter & edit text Use the onscreen keyboard to enter text. Here’s what it looks like on a Nexus phone: Touch a Touch & hold to type this suggestion character to type it Touch & hold Touch & hold for to see input more options, and keyboard... -
Page 31: Basic Editing
Keyboards on tablets work in a similar way. To make the key- board go away, touch the Back button below it. Some apps open the keyboard automatically. In others, you first need to touch where you want to type. Basic editing •... - Page 32 Emoji Android 4.4 vastly expands the variety of emoji available at your fingertips. On a phone, touch and hold the Return key to display emoji. On a tablet, just touch the emjoi symbol at the lower right. You’ll see a panel like this. To move between categories, swipe left or right or touch the symbols in the top row.
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Page 33: Gesture Typing
Use next-word suggestions 1. Touch the location where you want to input text. 2. Start typing out a word. When the word you want is displayed in a list above the keyboard, touch it. 3. Continue to touch words unless the one you want doesn’t appear. -
Page 34: Keyboard Dictionaries
change it, touch the word to see other choices in the suggestion strip. TIP: If there are letters you want to emphasize — for instance, if the keyboard displays a similar word instead of the one you want — pause over it slightly longer before moving on to the next letter. -
Page 35: Type By Speaking
Add-on dictionaries 1. Touch the Settings icon next to Android keyboard. 2. Touch Add-on dictionaries. You’ll see dictionaries for other languages that you can down- load to your device. 3. Touch the dictionary you want, then Install. Type by speaking You can speak to enter text in most places where you can enter text with the onscreen keyboard. - Page 36 To change your speech settings, go to Settings > Personal > Language & input. Settings ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE USE THE KEYBOARD...
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Page 37: Try Some Apps
Try some apps All Apps To see all your apps, touch the All Apps icon in the Favorites tray on any Home screen. This is where you can see all your apps, including All Apps those downloaded on Google Play. You can move app icons to any of your Home screens. -
Page 38: Google Play
To view info about an app from an All App screen, touch & hold it, slide your finger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app over the App Info icon. TIP: Some apps can harm you or your device. However, you don’t need to purchase anti-virus software for Nexus or Google Play edition devices. -
Page 39: Phone
apps based on maturity level or require a PIN before completing any purchase, touch Content filtering or Password. To find your content, open any of the Google Play apps from the All Apps screen. Google Play support For more details about Google Play, including phone and email support options, visit support.google.com/googleplay. -
Page 40: Gmail
TIP: On Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 only, Caller ID by Google identifies inbound and outbound numbers, even for callers not saved as contacts in the People app. For more details, visit Use your phone. Gmail Use the Gmail app to read and write email from any mobile device. - Page 41 To change your settings, add an account, or get help, touch the menu icon or button. No matter where you are in Gmail, you can always get back to the Inbox by touching the Gmail icon at the top of the screen. From the Inbox, touch the same icon to open the drawer that reveals available accounts, labels, and so on.
- Page 42 The shutter and other controls float above the framed image at the bottom of the screen. The camera icon indicates Camera mode. To take a picture in this mode: 1. Frame your subject and watch for the focus ring: To focus on a different part of the image, touch it. 2.
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Page 43: Gallery
Photo Sphere To capture a 360-degree or wide angle shot, pan or tilt until the circle in the center of the screen moves over a white dot and records that portion of the im- age. Keep moving over the dots until you’re finished, and then touch the shutter button to finish. -
Page 44: Photos
To get to the top level of the Gallery app, touch the icon at the upper left. From there, open the drop-down menu to view the available categories. Within each category you can browse groups of images, crop, edit, and tag them, create slideshows, make pictures or videos available offline, and share with friends. -
Page 45: People
You can browse, search, crop, edit, and tag photos, create al- bums, and use Google+ to share with circles of friends. To share a photo, video, or album, touch the Share icon. For more details, visit Photos help. People The People app gives you quick access to every- one you want to reach. -
Page 46: Hangouts & Sms
and other apps. As you add contacts from different sources, they’re synced automatically across all the places you need them. When you open the People app, you can: • View all contacts, favorites, or groups. Choose from the top left of the screen. •... -
Page 47: Calendar
email address, or phone number. Matching names and numbers from your contacts appear as you type. What you do next depends on the type of Hangout you want to start: • SMS message: touch a phone number. • Text hangout: touch a name. •... - Page 48 To change the Calendar view, choose Day, Week, Month, or Agen- da from the top of the screen. From any of these views, you can: • Read or edit event details. Touch an event to view its details. • Manage events and calendars. Touch icons across the top of the screen or the menu to search or create events, return to today, or adjust settings.
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Page 49: Settings
Settings Most apps include their own settings, typically available from Menu > Settings on Nexus devices or from the Menu button on some Google Play edition devices. The fastest way to adjust system settings that you access fre- quently, such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. Here are the Quick Settings for a Nexus phone: Switch to notifications... - Page 50 To open Quick Settings: • On tablets: Swipe down from the top right corner of any screen. • On phones: Swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. To open the Settings app from Quick Settings, touch the Set- tings icon.
- Page 51 Google Settings let you adjust adjust preferences for commonly used Google apps and services in one place, including Google+, Location, Search, and the Android Device Manager. Settings To open Google Settings, touch its icon in All Apps. From here, you can also: •...
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Page 52: Accessibility
Accessibility To use the accessibility options, open Settings > System > Accessibility. To view detailed information about setting up these options, visit Nexus Accessibility. Options for people with visual impairments include the following: • TalkBack is a pre-installed screen reader from Google. It uses spoken feedback to describe events, such as notifications, and the results of your actions, such as opening an app. - Page 53 zoom in and out, as well as temporarily magnify what’s under your finger. To try magnification gestures, go to Settings > Accessibility > Magnification gestures. ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE ACCESSIBILITY...