Introduction 1 About This Book 1 How to Use This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 Contacting the Author 5 Beyond the Book 5 Part 1: Your Own Android 7 Chapter 1: An Out-of-the-Box Experience 9 Liberation 9 Android Assembly 11 Peeling off the plastic sheeting 11 Installing the SIM card 11 Charge the Battery 13 Android Exploration 14 Discovering what''s what and where 14 Using earphones 16 Adding accessories 17 Where to Keep Your Digital Pal 19 Toting an Android phone 19 Taking an Android tablet with you 19 Making a home for the Android 19 Chapter 2: The On-Off Chapter 21 New Android Setup 21 Configuring your Android 22 Adding your online accounts 24 Upgrading from an older phone 25 Greetings, Android 26 Turning on your Android 26 Unlocking the device 27 Working a screen lock 28 Unlocking and running an app 29 Farewell, Android 29 Locking the device 29 Turning off your Android 30 Chapter 3: Android Tour 33 Basic Operations 33 Manipulating the touchscreen 34 Selecting a group of items 35 Navigating 35 Setting the volume 38 "Silence your phone!" 39 Changing the orientation 39 Home Screen Chores 40 Exploring the Home screen 40 Switching Home screen pages 42 Reviewing notifications 42 Accessing the quick settings 44 The World of Apps 45 Starting an app 45 Quitting an app 46 Finding an app in the apps drawer 47 Switching between running apps 48 Common Android Icons 49 Chapter 4: Text to Type, Text to Edit 51 Onscreen Keyboard Mania 51 Everybody Was Touchscreen Typing 54 Typing one character at a time 54 Accessing keyboard variations 55 Typing accented characters 56 Using predictive text to type quickly 56 Typing without lifting your finger 57 Using One-Handed mode 58 Google Voice Typing 58 Dictating text 59 Uttering s**** words 60 Text Editing 60 Moving the cursor 60 Selecting text 61 Cutting, copying, and pasting text 62 Dealing with speling errrs 63 Part 2: Stay Connected 65 Chapter 5: Telephone Stuff 67 Reach Out and Touch Someone 67 Placing a phone call 68 Making an emergency call 71 Dialing a contact 71 Using speed dial 71 Adding pauses when dialing a number 72 It''s for You! 73 Receiving a call 73 Rejecting a call 74 Multi-Call Mania 75 Putting someone on hold 75 Receiving a new call when you''re on the phone 75 Making a conference call 77 Chapter 6: Forward Calls, Missed Calls, and Voicemail 79 Forward Calls Elsewhere 79 Forwarding phone calls 80 Blocking calls 81 Who Called Who When? 82 Voicemail 83 Setting up carrier voicemail 83 Picking up carrier voicemail messages 84 Using Google Voice for voicemail 84 Chapter 7: The Address Book 87 The People You Know 87 Accessing the address book 88 Sorting the address book 90 Searching contacts 91 Make New Friends 92 Creating a new contact from scratch 92 Adding a contact from the call log 93 Manage Your Friends 94 Making basic changes 94 Adding a contact picture 94 Playing favorites 95 Managing contacts 96 Removing a contact 97 Chapter 8: Text Me 99 Msg 4U 100 Opening the texting app 100 Texting a contact 100 Composing a new text message 102 Sending a text to multiple contacts 103 Continuing a text message conversation 103 Typing emojis, stickers, and fancy things 103 Receiving a text message 104 Multimedia Messages 104 Creating a multimedia text message 105 Receiving a multimedia message 105 Text Message Management 106 Removing messages 106 Setting the text message ringtone 106 Choosing another texting app 107 Chapter 9: You''ve Got Email 109 Email on Your Android 109 Message for You, Sir! 111 Checking the inbox 111 Reading email 111 Compose a New Email Epistle 113 Crafting a new message 113 Sending email to a contact 114 Message Attachments 114 Receiving an attachment 115 Sharing an attachment 116 Chapter 10: Web Browsing 117 The Web Browser App 118 Behold the Web 118 Surfing the web on a mobile device 118 Visiting a web page 119 Browsing back and forth 120 Using bookmarks 121 Managing web pages in multiple tabs 121 Going incognito 122 Sharing a web page 123 The Art of Downloading 124 Grabbing an image from a web page 124 Downloading a file 124 Saving a web page 125 Reviewing your downloads 125 Web Browser Controls and Settings 125 Clearing your web history 126 Changing the web''s appearance 126 Setting privacy and security options 127 Chapter 11: Digital Social Life 129 Expose Your Life on Facebook 130 Instagram Me 132 Let''s All Tweet 132 Video Calling with Duo 134 Skype the World 135 Part 3: Amazing Android Feats 137 Chapter 12: There''s a Map for That 139 Map 101 139 Unfolding the Maps app 140 Changing the map view and adding layers 142 Saving an offline map 142 It Knows Where You are 143 Finding a location 143 Helping others find your location 145 Find Things 145 Looking for a specific address 145 Finding a business, restaurant, or point of interest 146 Marking a favorite place 147 Searching for favorite or recent places 148 Setting your Home and Work locations 148 Android the Navigator 149 Chapter 13: Everyone Say "Cheese!" 151 The Android''s Camera 151 Using a mobile camera 152 Capturing a still shot 153 Recording video 154 Exploring other shooting modes 155 Camera Settings and Options 155 Switching cameras 155 Setting the flash 156 Using the self-timer 157 Setting resolution and quality 157 Checking the location tag feature 158 Chapter 14: Your Digital Photo Album 161 The Photos App 161 Viewing pics and vids 162 Creating an album 163 Starting a slideshow 164 Finding a picture''s location 164 Edit and Manage Images 164 Editing an image 165 Un-editing an image 166 Cropping an image 166 Rotating a picture 168 Deleting images and videos 168 Set Your Pictures and Videos Free 169 Visiting Google Photos online 169 Posting a video to YouTube 169 Sharing images with other apps 170 Chapter 15: Music, Music, Music 171 The Hits Just Keep on Comin'' 171 Browsing your music library 172 Playing a tune 173 Queuing up the next song 175 Add Some Music to Your Life 176 Buying music 176 Getting music into the Google cloud 177 Synchronizing music directly 177 Organize Your Music 179 Reviewing your playlists 179 Building a playlist 180 Saving the song queue as a playlist 181 Removing unwanted music 181 Music from the Stream 182 Chapter 16: Various and Sundry Apps 183 Clock 183 Calculator 184 Calendar 185 eBook Reader 188 Game Machine 190 Voice Recorder 190 Your Pal, Google 191 Video Entertainment 192 Chapter 17: Google Play Shopping 193 Welcome to the Store 193 Browsing Google Play 194 Obtaining an item 196 Avoiding android viruses 199 Renting or purchasing videos 201 Google Play Tricks 201 Granting permissions 201 Using the wish list 202 Sharing a Google Play item 202 Keeping media on the device 203 Buying something remotely 204 Part 4: Nuts and Bolts 205 Chapter 18: It''s a Wireless Life 207 Android Wireless Networking 207 Using the mobile-data network 208 Understanding Wi-Fi 209 Activating Wi-Fi 209 Connecting to a Wi-Fi network 210 Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network 211 Setting up a metered Wi-Fi connection 212 Managing connections 213 Connection Sharing 213 Creating a mobile hotspot 214 Tethering the Internet connection 215 The Bluetooth Connection 215 Understanding Bluetooth 216 Activating Bluetooth 216 Pairing with a Bluetooth peripheral 217 NFC is Near to Me 219 Chapter 19: Connect, Share, and Store 221 The USB Connection 221 Configuring the USB connection 222 Connecting to a PC 224 Connecting to a Mac 225 Using the USB cable to transfer files 226 Disconnecting from a computer 227 Files Back-and-Forth 228 Sharing files on the cloud 228 Using the media card to transfer files 229 Adding a print service 230 Printing 231 Streaming media 231 Removable Storage 233 Inserting a microSD card 234 Removing a microSD card 235 Formatting m.