Android Tips and Tricks, the Ultimate Guide

Tip: Quickly Drag and Drop Text With a Double Tap in Jelly Bean and ICS

Kellen October 3, 2012 40

In Jelly Bean and Ice Cream Sandwich, the Android team built in a quick way to quickly move text around that you may not have seen before. All it takes, is a double tap and hold, and then you have control over the word you would like to move. You can easily...

How to: Set Data Limits on Android [Beginners’ Guide]

Tim October 1, 2012 40

With the introduction of Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, Google has enabled Android devices to notify their owners that the device has reached a set data limit. You as the owner can set this limit anywhere from 0.0MB all the way to whatever your plan is set...

How to: Apply Icon Packs With a 3rd Party Launcher [Beginners’ Guide]

Tim September 26, 2012 40

One of the cool things we can do with our Android devices straight out of the box is download a custom launcher and then apply icon packs that will drastically change the way an application's icon appears. Take the above screenshot for example - I have Nova ...

Managing Notifications in Jelly Bean [Beginners’ Guide]

Tim September 25, 2012 40

When Google introduced Jelly Bean at this year's Google I/O event in San Francisco, one of the features that struck as us as really cool was Jelly Bean's new notifications. With Jelly Bean, some applications are able to show interactive notifications and also...

How to: Resize Widgets on Jelly Bean [Beginners’ Guide]

Tim September 21, 2012 40

Some time ago, back when Honeycomb 3.1 was released, Google enabled the re-sizing of some widgets on Android. It wasn't very good and many widgets were unsupported. But as time goes by, the feature has grown and has become one of the many reasons Android...

How to: Quickly Share Photos on Android [Beginners’ Guide]

Tim September 20, 2012 40

Why else would we be taking tons of pictures if not to share them with the people we love? Today's smartphones are coming equipped with powerful cameras that can capture some stunning images with the quick press of a button. The one above is certainly not "...

Tip: Single-handed Zooming With Google Maps 6.12

Kellen September 19, 2012 40

Google just published the 6.12 update for Google Maps that includes better syncing of places and directions between PC and phone, but that isn't all that came with the update. They also introduced a new way to zoom without using two fingers or two hands. It's...

How to: Setting Up a Third Party Keyboard on Android [Beginners’ Guide]

Tim September 14, 2012 40

One of the features that we tend to overlook is the ability to install custom 3rd party keyboards on our Android phones. They allow for different methods of inputting text such as swiping, pecking, speed pecking, or simply speaking into our device. The means...