Using drag gestures

Drag gestures occur when you place a finger over an item on the screen, slide your finger across the screen, then lift your finger off the screen. Drag gestures typically move items, select text, or draw lines.

Think of drag gestures as similar to holding down the left mouse button and moving (or dragging) the mouse on a traditional PC.

On the Home screen, the drag gesture is used to move app icons around the Home screen, as shown in Figure 1.19. The drag gesture typically works with the long-press gesture as follows:

1. Open the Home Screen and use the long-press gesture to select an item.
2. Drag the item to a new location.
3. Lift your finger off the screen:

   Figure 1.19 – Dragging lets you move an icon on the Home screen

4. When working with text, the drag gesture is used to select text.
5. First, you use the long-press gesture to select a word.
6. Then you drag the selection handles that appear to the left and right of the selected word...