Android Tablets: Expert Guides and Resources

An Android tablet is a complex piece of electronics that is both delightful and intimidating. Obviously, that qualifies it as the next great thing. It also means that if you want to get the most from the device, you need some gentle hand-holding and careful explanation.Read on for plenty of tips, tricks, and other useful information that help make your Android tablet experience a pleasant and productive one.

The Home screen on your Android tablet is more than what you see. It’s actually an entire street of Home screens, with only one Home screen panel displayed at a time. To switch from one panel to another, swipe the Home screen left or right. There are pages to the left of the main Home screen page, and pages to the right.

A screen shot, also called a screen cap (for capture), is a picture of your Android tablet's touchscreen. So if you see something interesting on the screen or you just want to take a quick pic of your tablet life, you take a screen shot.The stock Android method of shooting the screen is to press and hold both the Volume Down and Power/Lock keys at the same time.

Some locations follow good computer security and change their Wi-Fi passwords. When you revisit that one charming café and find that your Android tablet doesn’t reconnect to the network, follow these steps: Obtain the new password.Demand the new password from someone in charge, like the confused young woman who keeps asking whether you want “room” in your black coffee.

Your Android tablet gives you all kinds of options for connecting to the web. Not every Wi-Fi network provides free, unlimited access. Some connections are metered. That means the provider may charge you per minute or per megabyte for accessing the Internet, similar to the limitations placed on the mobile data network.

Your Android tablet keeps constant, accurate track of the time, which is displayed at the top of the Home screen as well as on the lock screen. That’s handy, but it just isn’t enough, so the tablet ships with an app that tells the time and also may double as an alarm clock. The app may be called Clock or Alarm, but either way, the app does similar timey-type things: Display the time, act as a stopwatch, work as a timer, and set alarms.

You can do more with the Android tablet’s front-facing camera than take those infamous selfie shots. What more exactly you can do is tough to put a finger on right now, but the key is to be able to switch between front and rear cameras while using the Camera app. In the Google Camera app, tap the Action Overflow icon and choose the Switch Camera icon.

You can connect your Android tablet to a WPS router. Many Wi-Fi routers feature WPS, which stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup. It’s a network authorization system that’s really simple and quite secure. If the wireless router features WPS, you can use it to quickly connect your Android tablet to the network. To make the WPS connection, follow these steps: Touch the WPS connection button on the router.

If you keep anything important on your Android tablet or you have multiple users on the same tablet or you access a corporate email account, you need Lock screen security. This means adding more security than the simple swipe screen lock. Finding the screen locks The keys to your Android tablet’s screen locks are found within the Settings app.