Swiping up and holding will get you to multitasking, and you can even
swipe along the bottom of the screen to quickly switch between apps.
If you want to switch apps, you either
swipe along the bottom of the screen or swipe up and hold — you'll get a little haptic bump and the app switcher will show up.
But the simplest way to switch apps is to just
swipe along the bottom of the screen, left or right, as if there was some kind of control strip there.
Not exact matches
Immediately, the smooth, customizable NookColor interface is in view: The Home
screen has three versions that you can horizontally
swipe through, and you can drag book and periodical covers from the Daily Shelf ticker (which runs horizontally
along the
bottom of the Home
screen) into the Home
screen itself, positioning covers wherever you like (for example, you can even overlap them).
Among them is an enhanced multitasking experience,
along with the ability to
swipe up the Dock from anywhere in the OS from the
bottom edge
of the device, without returning to the home
screen.