Opening and switching applications, Open and close the Launcher

Opening and switching applications

The Launcher has icons for all of the applications on your phone, including any applications that you downloaded and installed from Android Market or other sources.

When you open an application, the other applications you’ve been using don’t stop; they keep on running: playing music, opening webpages, and so on. You can quickly switch among your applications, to work with several at once. The Android operating system and applications work together to ensure that applications you aren’t using don’t consume resources unnecessarily, stopping and starting them as needed. For this reason, there’s no need to stop applications unless you’re certain that one you downloaded is misbehaving. For details about how applications use memory and how you can manage them, see “Managing how applications use memory” on page 48.

See “Market” on page 341 to learn how to discover and install additional applications (including productivity tools, utilities, games, references, and many other kinds of software) on your phone.

Open and close the Launcher

SOn the Home screen, touch the Launcher icon to open it.

If you have more applications than can fit on the Launcher in one view, you can slide the Launcher up or down to view more.

Touch an application to open it

Slide the Launcher up or down to bring more apps into view.

Touch to close the Launcher.

You can add an application icon to the Home screen by touching & holding it on the Launcher until it vibrates and then dragging it to a location on the Home screen.