Android Tablet 101: How to Maximize and Optimize Your Android Tablet

AndroidTablet 101

How to Maximizeand Optimize Your Android Tablet

By

Paolo Josede Luna

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The Android OS is one of the most powerful operating systems forthe mobile device. Fighting it out neck to neck against the Apples iOS andbeing light years ahead from the other operating systems for the mobile, theAndroid still manages to stand out from the rest because of its versatility,customizability, and sense of identity as you make your device truly somethingthats yours to begin with. The true strength of the Android lies in thenumber of diverse apps that it has available on the Google Play Store. Withthousands of apps available at the Play Store, most available as freedownloads, the possibilities are endless when it comes to customizing theAndroid OS.

While the Android OS is common for smartphones, it also displaysits strength for the tablets. Because of its versatility and wider girth, thetablet is much suited for making video calls, playing games, surfing theInternet, and managing files. Without a proper OS, all of these activities arelaid to waste and a tablet is turned into a piece of metal and plastic withoutany significant use. However, the Android OS manages to take things up a notchby turning the tablet into something more colorful, versatile, and comfortableto operate. With the variety of applications and peripherals that you canattach to a tablet, the things that you can do with it are endless.

The Google Play Store is a grand haven wherein there arehundreds of thousands of applications that you can download. These apps arethen separated into several categories like games, productivity,personalization, books, communication, and a whole lot more. If youve visitedthe Play Store at least once, youll know how vast the availability of theseapps is. While there are a lot of apps in the Play Store that come as free todownload, some of them include in-app purchases meaning, you can choose topay for certain downloads within the app for a price while still being able todownload the app for free. There are also other apps that come as paid apps,only being downloaded after paying for a fee. But whats great about this isthat once you download an app in the Play Store, you can download the paid appon ALL of your Android devices! Thats how extensive and how flexible theAndroid OS can get.

In this book, youll get to know how you can take advantage ofthe Android OS on your Android tablet. Youll get to learn the best peripheralsthat you can get that are compatible for the Android OS, the best ways on howyou can optimize the Android OS, and the best apps and games that you candownload for your Android tablet.

But is there any way to push things even further? With that, theanswer is a loud and resounding YES. How? Then read on and explore on how youcan maximize and optimize using your Android tablet.

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Lets face it the one thing that all tablets, not just theAndroid tablets, have in common is that theyre geared for something thattheyre widely capable of entertainment. Tablets are made to withstand thedemand of giving you a variety of multimedia experiences namely, watchingvideos, surfing the Internet, and playing games. For someone using a tablet, itisnt just for work or for school, a tablet is a multimedia device that has awide variety of functions that you can do with utmost freedom.

The Android OS provides further freedom and flexibility for anytablet. With its magnificent OS that increases speed, customization, anddiversity, the tablet is made further equipped to be geared towardsentertainment. Because of this reason, there are a number of ways that you canemploy to gear up and turn your Android tablet into a high class multimediamachine.

Being priced at around hundreds of dollars, tablets are morethan just simple gadgets. Tablets are made for killing time or relaxing whenyou take a break. You can do a lot of things with a tablet during your breaksand heres a quick rundown on the things that you may or may not already knowand do with your own Android tablet.

One of the strongest suits of a tablet is watching a variety ofvideos. Because of its size, you can watch your favorite movies, TV shows, andonline videos on the go and without having to sit down on the couch at home. Withthe Android OS, you can maximize watching videos since it can play a variety ofvideo formats from 3GPP, AVI, MP4, even the difficult to read MKV, and a wholelot more. With the Android OS, you can also have the access to various types ofvideo players with customizable looks and skins, capable of reading variousvideo file types and even reading subtitles for those videos.

If youre more of a book person but you dont have the luxuryand the time to buy all the paperback books in the bookstore or you dont havespace to keep those books, its time to switch to reading eBooks! You candownload tons of eBooks online and even buy the premium titles on Amazonwithout much hassle. You can also read your favorite magazines if you have asubscription or if you have a free access to download these magazines. Get to readyour favorite books on your tablet with an easier and faster interface thatmakes reading a newer and more profound experience. The Android OS makesvarious eBook readers available for you to download and most of them dont evencost a dime for you to download! Good eBook readers include the likes of AldikoBook Reader, Moon Reader Plus, and Adobe PDF Reader.

Looking to play audio? Well, you dont have to be stuck on yourlaptop and carry bulky headphones on your head to listen to music. Tablets areas equally capable or maybe even better when it comes to playing music andaudio files. Tablets are also equipped with radios where you can listen tomusic and the news. The Android brings things up a notch by giving you a lot ofaudio and music apps like players that enable you to play, mix, and organizeyour music files. Some of the best music players for the Android include the likesof the Rocket Player, VLC Media Player, Power Amp Player, and the ever popularSpotify app lets you surf and explore millions of songs to play, along withtons of playlists to browse from.