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New Widgets
You can access the list of widgets by tapping Apps on the Home screen and then tapping Widgets at the top of the screen, as shown in Figure 13. You can add three new widgets in Android 4.2.2 to a Home screen:
- Active Apps Manager: Opens the Task Manager screen, so you can see all active applications, view downloaded apps, and manage memory and storage.
- Picture Frame: Displays one or more of your selected pictures stored on your Tab 2 within an area on the Home screen.
- S Bookmarks: Displays your website bookmark folders. Open the list of bookmarks by tapping the bookmark folder, and then tap on the bookmark tile to open the website in the Browser app.
This section presumes that you have already added these widgets to a Home screen of your choice.
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Figure 13 The first page of widgets in the Widgets screen
Using the Active Apps Manager Widget
The Active Apps Manager widget shows you how many applications are currently active on your Galaxy Tab 2, as shown in Figure 14. You can view all your open applications in the Task Manager by tapping on the widget.
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Figure 14 The number of active applications appear at the right side of the widget
The Task Manager screen, as shown in Figure 15, contains a list of all your active applications. You can end a specific application by tapping the End button to the right of the app name. You can end all active apps by tapping End All at the top of the list.
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Figure 15 The number of active applications appears at the top of the list
Return to the Home screen that contains the widget by tapping the Back icon on the Notification bar.
Using the Picture Frame Widget
After you add the Picture Frame widget to the Home screen, the Select From window appears, as shown in Figure 16, so you can select the type of images you want to display within the widget. You can select from images stored on your device, an album file that contains images, or shuffled pictures that you view within the widget as a slideshow. For this article, I’ll tap Images.
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Figure 16 Add images to view in the widget by tapping Images in the menu
In the Gallery window, you see image folders represented as a thumbnail image; this image appears within the folder. Tap the folder with the images you want to add to the Picture Frame app. Select the image(s) to add to the Picture Frame widget by tapping the check box at the upper-right corner of each image tile, as shown in Figure 17. When you finish selecting the images, tap Done.
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Figure 17 The Done option appears in the upper-right corner of the screen
The Picture Frame widget appears on the Home screen’s Setup screen, so you can see how the Picture Frame looks on the screen. If more than one image appears in the widget, you see the slideshow of photos. Return to the Home screen that contains the widget by tapping the Back icon on the Notification bar. The picture frame shows the picture (or the slideshow if you have more than one picture) within the widget, as shown in Figure 18.
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Figure 18 If you have a slideshow, a new picture appears in the widget every 3 seconds
Using the S Bookmarks Widget
After you add the S Bookmarks widget to your desired Home screen, the Internet window appears, so you can tap the account that contains the web bookmarks in the menu. After you tap the account name, the S Bookmarks widget appears on the Home screen’s Setup screen, so you can see how the widget looks on the screen.
Return to the Home screen that contains the S Bookmarks widget by tapping the Back icon on the Notification bar. You can swipe your finger up and down within the widget to view all the folders that contain your bookmarks, as shown in Figure 19.
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Figure 19 The list of bookmark folders appears in the list
Tap the folder that contains the bookmarked website you want to view. The bookmarks within the folder now appear within the widget, as shown in Figure 20. Tap the bookmark to view the website within the Browser app.
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Figure 20 The list of bookmark folders appears in the list
What's Next?
As you can probably tell, this article introduces you to only these new apps and widgets. You can find more information about apps and widgets in My Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 and articles written to support the book on the Que Publishing website; the Tab 3 runs Android 4.2.2 as well. For now, I invite you to continue on to Part 3 of this article series, which talks about the new settings available to you in Android 4.2.2 on your Galaxy Tab 2.