How to Build Your Skype Contact List on an Android Phone
Text, voice, and video chat on Skype over the Internet are free. If you can use a Wi-Fi connection, you can chat on your Android phone without incurring a loss of your cellular plan’s data quota. Before [more…]
How to Chat with Skype on an Android Phone
You can text-chat with any Skype user on your Android phone; it works similarly to texting, though with no maximum-character limitations. The only restriction is that you can chat only with other Skype [more…]
Map App Functions on an Android Phone
Start the Maps app on your Android phone by choosing Maps from the App menu, or you may find a shortcut to the Maps app lurking on the Home screen. If you’re starting the app for the first time or if it [more…]
How to Add Layers to a Map on an Android Phone
You add details from the Maps app on your Android phone by applying layers: A layer can enhance the map’s visual appearance, provide more information, or add other fun features to the basic street map, [more…]
How to Locate Yourself and Others with an Android Phone
The Maps app on an Android phone shows your location as a blue dot or compass arrow on the screen. But where is that? To find your current street address, or any street address, long-press a location on [more…]
How to Locate Addresses on an Android Phone
The Maps app on an Android phone can help you find places in the real world, just as the Browser app helps you find places on the Internet. Both operations work basically the same way: [more…]
How to Get Directions on an Android Phone
Thanks to its various direction and navigation features, the Maps app on an Android phone is waiting to be your copilot. It’s just like having a backseat driver, but one who knows where they’re going and [more…]
Basics of the Camera App on an Android Phone
To use your Android phone as a camera, you must do two things. First, hold the phone away from your face. That’s because the phone has no viewfinder. Nope — the image preview shows up on the touchscreen [more…]
How to Take Pictures with an Android Phone
To take a picture with your Android phone, point the camera at the subject and touch the Shutter button, either the touchscreen shutter button or the phone’s physical shutter button, if it has one. Your [more…]
How to Record Video with an Android Phone
When the action is hot — when you need to capture more than a moment (and maybe the sounds) — switch an Android phone’s camera into Video mode. Your phone features the Camcorder app, which is used to record [more…]
How to Manage the Photo Gallery on an Android Phone
You can start the Gallery app on your Android phone by locating its icon, either on the Home screen or the App menu. How the Gallery looks varies from phone to phone, but generally the images are organized [more…]
How to Share Images with an Android Phone
The images you take with your Android phone camera don’t need to be bottled up inside your phone. Nope — you can take advantage of the Share command or Share button to liberate images and videos, setting [more…]
How to Upload Videos to YouTube with an Android Phone
The best way to share a video is to upload it to YouTube. As a Google account holder, you also have a YouTube account. You can use the YouTube app on your Android phone to upload videos to the Internet [more…]
How to Browse the Music Library on an Android Phone
Music Headquarters on an Android phone is the app named Music. You can start this app by touching its icon, found on the App menu, though it may also adorn the Home screen. [more…]
How to Play a Song on an Android Phone
To listen to music on your Android phone, you first find a song in the Music app’s library. After you find the song, you touch its title. The song plays in another window, similar to the one shown. [more…]
How to Transfer Music from Your Computer to an Android Phone
Your computer is the equivalent of the 20th century stereo system — a combination tuner, amplifier, and turntable, plus all your records and CDs. If you’ve already copied your music collection to your [more…]
How to Get Music from the Google Play Store for an Android Phone
Just like those popular mobile-music gizmos that rhyme with “pie rod,” your Android phone can play music. You can listen to songs you buy online, synchronize them from your computer, or find music on the [more…]
How to Create an E-mail Signature on an Android Phone
You can have oodles of fun and waste oceans of time confirming and customizing the e-mail experience on your Android phone. One of the most interesting things you can do is to modify or create an e-mail [more…]
How to Listen to the Radio on an Android Phone
Music can be an impulsive thing, more often than not. Truly, for you to be able to listen to the proper song to match your current mood, your phone would have to sport one huge music library. Or perhaps [more…]
Basics of the Alarm Clock on an Android Phone
Your Android phone keeps constant and accurate track of the time, which is displayed at the top of the Home screen and also when you first wake up the phone. When you’d rather have the phone wake you up [more…]
How to Read Books on an Android Phone
An eBook is an electronic version of a book. The words, formatting, figures, pictures ¯ all that stuff is simply stored digitally so that you can read it on something called an eBook reader. Your Android [more…]
How to Watch Movies on an Android Phone
Your Android phone has the ability to let you view movies, TV shows, and Internet video on its relatively diminutive screen. The cheapest way to view video on your phone is to access YouTube. It’s the [more…]
How to Get a Free App from the Google Play Store for an Android Phone
The most common and traditional items to hunt down at the Google Play Store are apps for your Android phone. More than 500,000 apps are available there, and most of the apps are free. Even the paid apps [more…]
How to Buy an App from the Google Play Store with an Android Phone
Some great free apps are available for your Android phone at the Google Play Store, but many of the apps you dearly want probably cost money. It’s not a lot of money, especially compared to the price of [more…]
How to Manage Apps on an Android Phone
The Google Play Store is not only where you buy apps for an Android phone — it’s also the place you return to for performing app management. This task includes reviewing apps you’ve downloaded, updating [more…]
