Tap an app icon and your search text is handed off to the app in question.
Tap on that very vanilla app drawer icon and you'll be greeted with a mix of GApps, as well as Motorola and Verizon bloat.
Just tap and hold on an app and drag it over another app to make a folder -- iOS even takes a guess at a name for you.
Just wait for those dirty looks from fellow caffeine addicts as you fumble to unlock your phone, launch your app, tap it, and wait for the beep.
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To download the app users must tap a window vowing they are over 17, although there is no verification system.
Seamless Shopping and Reading: Elevating the shopping experience to new digital heights, NOOK for Windows 8 customers can browse over 3 million books, magazines, and newspapers through NOOK's expansive digital content catalog, learn more about the book (including details and reviews) right from within the app, and tap to purchase and begin reading in seconds.
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With the iPad app people can easily tap on any photo or video to interrupt the Qwiki and zoom in on that piece of content.
If you're really interested you can tap Dr Grierson's homebrewed Oramics iPhone app (linked below for your downloading pleasure) to create your own futuristic theme songs, '57-style.
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The Stocks app also allowed you to tap once on the quotes to change them to the % price change view and tap again to display market capitalization.
Better yet, the system is set to work in unison with the Lockitron (a smartphone-controlled keyless door lock that was recently crowd-funded, albeit still yet to ship) allowing you to let welcome visitors inside your abode at the tap of your iOS or Android Device's app screen.
Creating a magazine is simple: just tap the plus button visible on each article inside the app or use the bookmarklet when surfing the web.
Imported clips can be dragged into sequence and trimmed with a tap, and, unlike Apple's competing iMovie app, Avid Studio allows you to insert multiple audio tracks, deciding precisely when one song should end and another starts.
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There are basically two ways of throwing things to the rear display: In a customized app (made either by Yota or by a third party using the open APK), you can tap a symbol in the top right corner and the app will send currently displayed items across to the back.
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The company is also promoting its NY Times app for mobile devices, through which it expects to tap new demand from the surging smartphone and tablet markets.
They could also disclose how an app works, including the potential for in-app purchases, in a consistent manner similar to how apps Tap Pets Hotel and Candy Crush have done.
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When you begin watching a video, tap the proper button near the top of the screen and it hovers above whatever app you want to use simultaneously.
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Simply tap your Flex band on your Android phone and it will automatically launch the Fitbit Android app.
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Once enabled in settings, you can tap and hold the screen, rotate the phone horizontally and you'll be sent to the camera app.
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Within the app, all a person needs to do is open a conversation with a partner, tap the "i" icon in the upper right hand corner and select "Free Call".
Furthermore, when you update the YouTube mobile app on your Android smartphone or tablet, you will see a new button within the YouTube mobile app making it possible to send videos from your mobile devices to NeoTV PRIME with a single tap.
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By using Burst (a mobile video sharing app) parents can capture videos of their kids on the fields via smartphones and, with one tap within Burst, publish these clips to SportingNews.
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