Basic Skills 2-9Quick ContactAs you build up your list of contacts on your device, you can use QuickContact for Android in many applications to quickly start a chat, email, ortext message, to place a call, or to locate your contacts. Quick Contact forAndroid is a special icon that you can tap to open a bubble with options forquickly initiating a connection to that contact.Contacts that you can access with Quick Contact are displayed differently indifferent applications, but usually with a picture frame that looks like this:Tap a Quick Contact icon to open a bubble with icons for all the ways youcan communicate with the contact. Tap an icon to start communicating withthe contact in that application.You can add a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen, which you canthen tap to open Quick Contact for Android for that contact. (For moreinformation about adding shortcuts to the Home screen, see “Adding anItem to the Home Screen” earlier in this chapter.)
