[vi-android] Re: android basics
- From: Quentin Christensen <Quentin.Christensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:43:28 +1100
Hi Aidan,
I haven't seen any of the new LG made Nexus devices, but the interface and
included apps should be the same on all of them - basically out of the box they
come with most things made by Google and little else (Gmail, Chrome, YouTube,
Google+ etc).
With the manufacturer branded devices, such as the Samsung's, you tend to get
other apps built in as well - for instance my Galaxy Note II came with
"S-Notes" and "S-Calendar" designed to work with the stylus built into the
Note, and it uses those by default, though it does include the regular Google
calendar as well. I don't use those S-apps, but one thing I do like on my
Note, is that it came with DropBox and prompted me to set that up to
automatically sync photos I take to my dropbox account. One other thing I do
like with the Samsung devices is they also come with a couple of notification
panel quick settings like brightness slider and quick settings for turning on /
off WiFi, mobile data etc. Of course there are other ways of doing that (I
like Notification Panel I mentioned yesterday), and it can be hard to turn some
things off if you don't want extra things running - so from that point of view
I do like the Nexus devices as aside from the basics, it's then up to me to
decide what apps I want to install and use.
Some of the manufacturers interfaces are more accessible than others. I know
LG have traditionally been less accessible though I haven't seen them lately so
I don't know if the newest ones are still like that (The LG Nexus phones should
be fine as they are not running the extra LG software which was the problem on
earlier phones. Samsung's touchwiz interface is pretty accessible, and in fact
one thing I like on mine, which I think might be a Samsung thing, is with
Talkback on, when the phone is locked, I don't need to find the specific text
which says "Swipe to unlock", I can actually just take two fingers and swipe
anywhere to unlock.
With Talkback, when you first turn it on (either by holding two fingers down
from the setup screen when you turn your device on for the first time out of
the box, or by turning it on from settings later on), it prompts you to
complete the Talkback tutorial which walks you through the basics of using it,
and of using some of the gestures.
Talkback doesn't have the same rotor gesture that iOS does, but it can do the
same things in different ways, and it has commands to go back, or home, or open
the notifications, or change the text granularity.
If you miss the tutorial, you can go back into settings and accessibility then
Talkback, settings and there is an option there to run the tutorial.
Regards
Quentin.
-----Original Message-----
From: vi-android-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vi-android-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Aidan
Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 1:01 AM
To: vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-android] android basics
Hi everyone. I'm new to this list and new to android. I like the way they
improved talkback in this last wile. First off, are there a lot of differences
in the software configuration between the nexuses and the Samsung devices? For
example, will all of them come with the same programs? Or does it also depend
on the type of nexus and who make it?
And second, is there any getting started for talkback somewhere to read for
giving me a clearer picture of what to expect and how to work things and find
my way? I don't no if it contain a roater like ios, and such things.
Thanks for any help.
Aidan
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