On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> Is there an online (ie on phone) help facility or tutorial that I can use? > I don't know of any, though that would be handy. I hope someone does know of one. It does blow my mind that there is no "official" user manual to the Android system. > Failing that, any recommended user oriented Android help web pages or as a > last resort a dead-tree book? > Again, I got nothing ... I'm looking for info on how to monitor/manage resources (battery/memory etc) > This will vary between platform versions. The latest ones, I think, has a running services and activities manager that lets you see which apps are running. There's also the option to see what's using the battery (About -> Phone -> Battery, or something like that). There are also plenty of apps dedicated to resource management that you could play around with. > and switch between apps other than just using the back button - and > is there a corresponding "forward" button? In other words can I toggle > between two runnng apps? ) > Press and hold the Home button to get a list of the most recently used apps. You can toggle back and forth between 2 or more apps fairly quickly this way. In general, I would suggest just sitting down and playing with your phone to try to discover this functionality. Navigate through all the screens, press the options key everywhere, press and hold on anything you see, etc. Same goes for any apps. It's sad that this is what it comes down to, but you can discover a lot about the phone by simply experimenting. For example (Nexus One): * Press and hold the Search button to start voice search * Press and hold the Menu button to open the virtual keyboard * Press and hold the Home button to see a list of recently used apps * In the default browser, press and hold the Back button to bring up the History And so on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
