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Mobile Operating System - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Tap the Apps icon to display the Apps drawer. Find the icon of the apps that you want to stick at the launcher.
        
        Tap on the icon, press it long and drag to Home Screen. Release app where you desire by lifting your finger
  - - - Click on the desired apps
      - Drag it to another position on the Home screen.
      - If you drag to the far left or far right of the screen, the item is sent to another Home screen page.
    - - Drag that item up to the top of the Home Screen page, where the Remove icon lurks (appear).
      - The Remove icon can appear as shown in the figure.
      - When the item hovers over that part of the screen, lift your finger. The apps will be gone when the Remove icon disappear. If its still there, you might have done it wrong.
  - - - Switch to a Home screen page that has enough room for the new widget.
      - Access the widgets.– On newer phones, long-press a blank part of the Home screen. Tap the Widgets icon.
      - Long-press the widget you want to add.
      - Drag the widget to the Home screen.
      - Lift your finger.
    - - Create folders by
        overlapping launchers
        
        Drag one launcher over another on the Home screen. Be quick! When the two launchers get close, a circle encloses them, which provides visual feedback that a folder is created.
        
        Some phones require that you first create a folder
      - Change folders name
        
        Folders are managed just like other items on the Home screen. You can rearrange folder icons and remove them just like launchers and widgets. Removing a folder doesn’t uninstall its enclosed apps.
        
        To change a folder’s name, open the folder and then tap the current name. Use the onscreen keyboard to type a new name
      - Delete folders by
        removing apps
        
        To remove a launcher from a folder, open the folder and drag out the icon.
        
        When the second-to-last icon is dragged out of a folder, the folder is removed.
        
        If not, drag the last icon out, and then remove the folder as described in the earlier slide.
    - - Click and hold on the desired widget.
      - Drag it to a preferred home screen. You can see an almost invisible widget moving along your swiping movement.
      - You can either move it to the left or right side of the screen. You must drag it to right most or left most of screen before it can be moved.
      - Once you reached the desired home screen, release the widget
- - - - system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.
      - presently powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
      - second most popular mobile operating system
        globally after Android.
      - responds to the user's touch - allowing you to tap
        on the screen to open a program, pinch your fingers together to minimise or enlarge an image, swipe your finger across the screen to change pages.
      - not allowed to be used in third party
        systems, you will only be able to use it on products
        made by Apple
        
        Safari web browser
        for internet use
        
        iPod application for playing music
        
        Apple's Mail for managing your emails
    - - owned by Google and powered by the Linux
        kernel
        
        can be found on a wide range of devices
      - open source operating system which allows
        developers to access unlocked hardware and develop new programs as they wish
      - means unlimited access to any anyone who wants to develop apps for the phone and places very little restriction on its licensing
      - dominant smartphone
        platform due to its tremendous traction with a wide
        spectrum of users
      - best features of Android include the
        ability to customise multiple homescreens with useful widgets and apps that give you quicker
      - has an excellent capacity for multitasking with the ability to close programs by simply swiping
        them away
    - - family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.
      - first launched in October 2010 with Windows
        Phone 7.
      - Windows Phone 8.1 is the latest public release on April 14, 2014.
      - replaced by Windows 10 Mobile
        in 2015
      - recognisable from its tile-based interface
        
        features removable and interchangeable squares sections on the home screen, each with its own purpose and function.
      - also has aggregators called 'hubs'
        
        group
        together all photos from all applications or all music
        into one library
        
        your Facebook photos can be
        found with your camera photos
        
        your documents
        from different sources grouped together in one
        
        easy to
        access location
      - comes with a mobile-optimised
        version of the Internet Explorer for accessing the web and Exchange
- - - - App Store
        the most cutting edge apps
        usually appear on Apple devices
        first
        
        subject to strict
        security protocol
        
        Microsoft and Apple maintain greater control over the software than Android
        
        All three platforms are updated on a fairly regular basis, from big releases with new features and occasional redesigns every few months, to smaller releases to deal with minor bugs.
  - - - Windows
        Store smallest
        consumer base
        
        control over the
        software
  - - - minimalist design with bright colors and fast-swiping, left-to-right scrolling across home screens
      - Google Play
        a greater variety of apps, quality maybe not be as
        high, some apps may not be transferable or compatible with devices
        
        Careful examination over the applications in its Google Play Store
- - - - client opens a
        connection to the server and keeps it
        constantly active
        
        server will send (push) all new events to
        the client using that single always on
        connection.
        
        the server
        PUSHes the new events to the client
    - - client periodically connects to the server, checks for and gets (pulls) recent events and then closes the connection and disconnects
        from the server
        
        client repeats this whole procedure to get
        updated about new events
        
        the clients periodically PULLs the
        new events from the server
  - - - get new events (such as
        a new email, a new chat message) literally
        instantly.
        
        But you may experience a small time
        delay in pull protocols.
    - - it check for new events so
        regular (every 30 seconds)
        
        that the time
        delay is mostly not noticeable
    - - Pull
        
        when you're waiting for a specific program on
        your TV, you repeatedly turn it on and check if your program started and then turn in off.
      - Push
        
        cell phone is always connected to the mobile
        network. You can tell this by the signal bars on your
        phone's screen. When a caller calls, the network
        sends the call to your cell phone via that active
        connection your cell phone already have.