Chapter 12

Rooting Your Tablet

You’ve gotten the hang of the basic concepts of using an Android tablet by now. You can enjoy all the music, movies, and games you could possibly want to enjoy. You can run your digital world from your tablet, everything from e-mail and instant messaging to Facebook and Twitter. There are those of you reading, however, who are no doubt looking for how you can push your Android tablet even further. These are the kinds of things that your Android tablet might not have been specifically designed for, but developers figured it out and have shared the ability to do these things with you. There’s just one small thing you have to do first, and that is to root your tablet.

Android is built on an operating system called ...

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