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Becoming Attached to Your Android
The document presents a guide on becoming familiar with Android devices, covering various models, the Android operating system, and essential features such as customizing settings and downloading apps. It highlights specific Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus tablets, explains the functionality of apps and widgets, and provides instructions for downloading e-books using the OverDrive app. Key reminders include enabling Wi-Fi for online activities and authorizing Adobe Digital Editions for first-time downloads.
Becoming Attached to Your Android
- 1. Becoming Attached toyour Android Presented by Kathy Petlewski Plymouth District Library 2014
- 2. Topics We’ll Cover • • • • • • VariousMakes and Models of Androids The Android Operating System Looking at the various desktops Making sense of the Settings Enabling WiFi Shopping in the Google Play Store & Samsung Apps • Downloading ebooks to your device.
- 3. Samsung Galaxy Tabseries • • • • • • • • Galaxy Tab/Tab 7.0 (2010) Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Galaxy Tab 7.7 (2011) Galaxy Tab 8.9 (Oct 2011) Galaxy Tab 10.1 (2011) Galaxy Tab 2 (7” & 10.1”) Galaxy Tab 3 (7”, 8” & 10.1”) 2013 Galaxy Tab Pro (8.4”, 10.1” & 12.2”)
- 4. Samsung Galaxy NoteSeries • Galaxy Note 8.0 – Android 4.1 upgradable to 4.2 • Galaxy Note 10.1 – Android 4.0 upgradable to 4.1 • Galaxy Note 10.1, 2014 Edition – Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
- 5. Google Nexus Tablets •Nexus 7 – 2012 Version, developed with Asus. Released with Android 4.1. • Nexus 10 – Oct. 2012, manufactured by Samsung • Nexus 7, 2nd generation, released July 2013. Released with Android 4.3.
- 6. Android Operating System •Android 2.3 – Gingerbread (December 2010) • Android 3.0 – Honeycomb (February 2011) • Android 4.0-4.0.4 – Ice Cream Sandwich (October 2011) • Android 4.1-4.3 – Jelly Bean (July 2012) • Android 4.4 – KitKat (September 2013)
- 7. Common Features ofAndroid Tablets • Users have the ability to customize the look and feel of their devices. • Shop and download applications from the Google Play Store. • Download e-books from OverDrive in the EPUB format. • Browse the Internet, read e-mail, use social media sites such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. • Play music, watch movies, and view photos.
- 8. Android Apps vs.Widgets • “Apps are conventional programs that occupy the entire screen when opened. Applications added to the Home screen appear as icons. To open an app, tap its icon.” • “Widgets are single-purpose miniprograms. Widgets added to the Home screen appear as icons that you can tap to open or as tiles that you can resize to open part or all of the Home screen.” • (taken from Google Nexus 7 Tablet by Chris Fehily, page 21.)
- 9. Looking at GoogleNexus
- 10. Nexus Apps &Widgets
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- 12. Information About YourNexus • When I clicked on System Update, it told me to update to Android Version 4.4.2 “which improves performance and stability and fixes bugs.”
- 13. Shopping in theGoogle Play Store
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- 15. Widgets & Appsfor Galaxy Tab
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- 17. Apps – Google& Samsung
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- 19. Galaxy Note SpecialFeature • Use the Galaxy Note’s special stylus called the “S pen” to draw, scribble notes, or write on the screen and then save to your tablet. • Choose from a number of different templates.
- 20. Apps & Widgetsfor the Note
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- 22. Downloading ebooks forAndroids
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- 24. Select the PlymouthDistrict Library
- 25. Going to theMCLS Site
- 26. Settings and Searchingfor e-Books
- 27. Starting the CheckoutProcess
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- 29. Authorizing Adobe DigitalEditions • The first time you download from OverDrive, you must authorize with Adobe Digital Editions. • This is a free process, but be sure to write down your ID for safekeeping.
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- 31. Things to Remember •You must have your Wi-Fi enabled to surf web, download ebooks and get to the Google Play Store or Samsung Apps. • You will have to a username and password for Adobe Digital Editions the first time you download from OverDrive. This is a free registration. • It’s a “Use it or Lose it” set of skills. The more you use it, the more comfortable you will become with it.
- 32. Time for Questions& Comments Thanks for attending !