Chapter 11

Customizing Your Android Tablet

If you’re like most tablet owners, it’s important to you that the device feels like it’s yours. Right now, you have the same background wallpaper, same virtual keyboard, and same everything as anybody else. But there are tools at your disposal that can separate you from the crowd, as well as provide a better way to accomplish basic tasks on your tablet.

In this chapter, we’ll look at two ways to customize your computer. First we’ll look ways to modify the virtual keyboard that ships with your tablet, and then we’ll see how to modify its home screen.

Customizing the Keyboard

Likely the most important part of your experience on any Android tablet is the virtual keyboard. If you do not like the keyboard ...

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