Android Basics: A Series of Tutorials for Beginners

All across the web, you'll find guides on setting up various apps and mods for your Android device—but while these are certainly useful, they all seem to be working under the assumption that the reader has a certain level of knowledge about Android. For someone that's just getting started with the world's most popular mobile operating system, the basics of Android simply aren't covered as well as they should be.

For several months now, we've been working on a series of Android guides with one common goal—to educate users on topics they aren't entirely familiar with. By this point, we've amassed quite a few of these Android Basics tutorials, so we're happy to share a list of links below. The guides are organized into two main sections, and the full list is in ascending order based on experience level—after all, we all have to start somewhere, right?

Guides for Complete Beginners

Guides for Intermediate Users

This is an ongoing project, so we'll continue to create Android Basics tutorials and update this article with new links as they're published. If you have any friends or family members who are new to Android, we'd encourage you to share this article with them directly.

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