Opening applications
The Launcher icon ( ), which you can open from the Home screen, holds
icons for all the applications on your tablet, including any applications that
you downloaded and installed.
Opening an application
You may open any application by:
Tapping an application icon on the
Home
screen.
Tapping an application icon from the Launcher icon.
Monitoring your tablet’s status
The status bar appears on the top of every screen. It displays icons
indicating that you have received notifications and icons indicating the
tablet’s status, along with the current time.
Status icons
The icons on the right of the status bar indicate the status of your tablet.
Notification icons
The icons on the left of the status bar indicate different types of
notifications. In addition to system notification icons, applications you
installed on your tablet may use their own notification icons.
Managing Notifications
Notification icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and
alarms, as well as ongoing events.
When you receive a notification, its icon appears in the status bar, along
with a summary that appears only briefly.
You can open the Notifications panel to view a list of all your notifications.
Depending on your settings and the model of your tablet, you may also
hear a notification sound.
Adjusting sound volume and other general notifications settings is
described in the
settings in "Settings" chapter.
Applications that produce notifications, such as Email, have their own
settings, which you can use to configure whether and how they send
notifications. See the sections on those applications for details.
Opening the Notifications panel
Tap the status bar to open the notifications panel. The notifications panel
displays a list of your current notifications. Notifications about ongoing
activities are listed first, followed by notifications about events, such as a
new mail notifications.
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