Running Android: Using Your Phone And Tablet For Work And Play

Running Android Using Your Phone and Tablet for Work and Play Bruce Grubbs Bright Angel Press Flagstaff, Arizona Running Android Using Your Phone and Tablet for Work and Play Bruce Grubbs Bright Angel Press Flagstaff, Arizona www.BrightAngelPress.com Updated February 2015 for Android Lollipop 5.0.2 © 2015 Bruce Grubbs Images and illustrations by Bruce Grubbs unless otherwise credited ISBN 978-0-9899298-3-7 All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in any form, in whole or in part (beyond that copying permitted by U.S. Copyright Law, Section 107, “fair use” in teaching or research, Section 108, certain library copying, or in published media by reviewers in limited excerpts), without written permission from the publisher. Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the Android users and experts out there who contribute to the various Android forums and share their insights with us all. Big thanks to Peter Levine for an excellent job of copy editing as always. And thanks to Duart Martin for offering valuable suggestions and for her untiring support of my writing projects. Contents Introduction What to Buy? Getting Started Extending with Apps Securing Your Device Connecting to the Internet Finding Things Browsing the Web Keeping up with Social Networks Make Video Calls with Skype Checking Email Managing Contacts Listening to Music and Radio Playing Games Taking Pictures Watching Movies and TV Reading Books and Magazines Keeping up with the News Watching the Weather Finding Your Way with Maps and GPS Your Pocket Office Managing Files and Printing Customizing Your Android Device Finding Accessories Maximizing Battery Life Solving Problems Also by the Author About the Author Introduction Congratulations! If you’re reading this book, you either own or are seriously thinking of buying an Android-based tablet or phone. Google’s wildly popular Android operating system has passed a major milestone- it is now installed on the vast majority of portable devices and has the most third party apps (applications) by far. So if you want to have a phone or a tablet that you can customize to work your way and not be locked into a single company’s idea of how things should work, Android is for you. This book is based on my earlier book, Google Nexus 2013: Making Your Android Tablet Work for You. Since the last revision of that book, Google has released the latest version of Android, codenamed Lollipop. I’ve updated much of the text and all of the screenshots to reflect the changes in Lollipop. However, I’ve decided to delay updating Google Nexus 2013 because the rollout of Lollipop is slow and uneven across devices. So readers still running the earlier version of Android, Kitkat, may want to get that book. I use the Nexus 2013 tablet for most of the examples, screenshots, and descriptions in the book. But in some cases I use my current cell phone (Motorola Droid Maxx) as an example. The purpose of this book is to help you get the most out of your Android phone and tablet by showing you how to do practical, everyday things. Although the book has a getting started chapter to help you get up and running with your new device right out of the box, it does not try to replicate the instructions that come with every device