Opening and Switching Applications
Multi-tasking is easy with Android™ 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 tapping its icon on the screen.
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, more convenient access. No matter where the icon is, on the Applications screen or your Home screen, just tap it to open and use it.
Opening multiple applications
Tap an application icon to open it.
Tap (or press) the Home Key
.NOTEIf the application icon you want is on your Home screen, simply tap the icon to open and use it.
From the Home screen, tap the Apps Key
in the Quick
Keys bar.Tap the icon for the other application you want to open.
Switching between multiple applications
Tap the Recent Apps Key
. A screen opens
and displays a vertically scrolling list of all of the applications
that are currently open.Tap the application preview of the application you want to use to open it or tap (or press) the Back Key
to return to
the current screen.
Swipe up or down to view the entire list of open applications.
Tap an icon to use it.
You can also tap the screen background to return to the Home screen.
Flick an application icon to the right or left to remove it from the list.