LG Electronics MFL67696601 manual Opening and Switching Applications, Opening an application

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Opening and Switching Applications

Multi-tasking is easy with AndroidTM 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 touching its icon on the screen.

TIP 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 touch it to open and use it.

Opening multiple applications

1.Touch an application icon to open it.

2.Touch the Home Key .

NOTE If the application icon you want is on your Home screen, simply touch the icon to open and use it.

3. From the Home screen, touch the Apps Key .

4. Touch the icon for the other application you want to open.

Switching between multiple applications

1.Touch and hold the Home Key . A screen with the icons of the applications that you’ve used recently will appear.

2.Touch the application preview of the application you want to use or touch

the Back Key to return to the current screen.

If you flick the application preview to the right or left, it disappears from the recent app list.

Touch an app preview to open that application (touching the background redisplays the Home screen).