Covers All Android™ Smartphones and Tablets Running Android 4.4 (KitKat®) or 4.3 (Jelly Bean)
 
Unlock the Power of Your Android™ Smartphone or Tablet

 

Discover hundreds of tips and tricks you can use right away with your Android device to get more done, and have more fun.

 

You’ll learn how to use your Android smartphone or tablet as a powerful communication, organization, and productivity tool as well as a feature-packed entertainment device. You will dig deep into the settings and capabilities of both Android itself and the preinstalled apps, developing the knowledge and skills to exploit them to the fullest.

 

Easy to understand and non-technical, Android Tips and Tricks is perfect for beginners–and for more experienced users ready to get more productive or move to newer devices. It covers all new and recent Android smartphones and tablets running Android 4.4 (KitKat®) or 4.3 (Jelly Bean)–with bonus coverage of today’s top Android “skins”: Samsung TouchWiz and HTC Sense.

 

Here’s just a sampling of what this book’s tips, tricks, and strategies will help you do:

 

  • Connect to wireless and cellular networks, keyboards and Bluetooth devices, and even VPNs

  • Transform your device into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, and share Internet connections via USB or Bluetooth

  • Secure Android with screen and SIM locks, location settings, and encryption

  • Sideload apps from any source and keep bad apps from loading

  • Take Gmail to pro level with signatures, vacation responders, labels, archiving, advanced search, and secure two-step verification

  • Manage multiple email accounts together: POP, IMAP, web mail, and Exchange

  • Get more out of your Google Chrome browser, and share bookmarks across all your devices

  • Chat via text, audio, or video on Google Hangouts–and customize it to work just the way you want

  • Enjoy your music everywhere, whether it’s stored locally or in the cloud

  • Easily capture, edit, and share top-quality photos and videos

  • Transform your smartphone or tablet into a total social networking hub

  • Squeeze more battery life from any Android device

 

Guy Hart-Davis  is the co-author of My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and My HTC One, and the author or lead author of nearly 100 computer books.

If you're like most Android users, you're probably only using 10%-20% of what your smartphone or tablet can do for you. Maybe you don't need every feature... but you could be a lot more productive, and you could have a lot more fun than you're having now. In Android Tips and Tricks, top technology author Guy Hart-Davis offers easy, hands-on, step-by-step directions for everything you'd want to do if you only knew how. Hart-Davis covers all the common "pain points" that go with running Android: syncing, storage, customization, Wi-Fi, staying within your data plan, improving battery life, taking better photos, and using your device for media and social networking. You'll find up-to-the-minute tips and tricks focused on the latest Android versions, including 4.4 (KitKat) and 4.3 (Jelly Bean), plus bonus help for interfaces from today's top two Android manufacturers, Samsung (TouchWiz) and HTC (Sense). From privacy to Play Store, remote find to mobile hotspots, these tips and tricks are so helpful you'll wonder: how did I ever use my Android without them?