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Device Basics
Overview
Opening and Switching Applications Multi-tasking is easywith Android™.Opened applications can keep running in the background when you
open another application. There’s no need to quit an application before opening another. You can easily
switch among several open applications. Android manages each application, pausing and starting them as
needed toensure that unused applications don’t waste your device's resources.
To open an application:
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Simplytap its icon on the screen.
Note
You can customize your Home screen with shortcuts to the applications you use most often. Applications are located
on the Applications screen, but youcan add an application shortcut to your Home screen for faster access. No
matterwhere the icon is, on the Applications screen or your Home screen, just touch it to open and use it. See
Adding Application Icons to the Homescreen
on page 27
for more information.
Note
The Applications screen closes automatically when you tap an icon to open its Application. Dragging an icon onto
your Home screen also closes the Applications screen automatically.
Tap an application icon
to open the application.
Slide the screen up or down to
bring more icons into view.
Tap to open the
Applications screen.
Tap to close the
Applications screen. Applications screen
Home screen