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About the popularity of 2 button navigation (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ever since its appearance in Android Pie, I always consider 2 button navigation is a bad attempt by Google trying to play catch-up with the fad generated by the iPhone X. However, due to a bug with A13 QPR2 it had to be temporarily removed and many were not happy about this. So, 2 button navigation users, may I ask why do you prefer this method? To me it makes you do more for the same action whilst doesn't save any screen space.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not using two-button navigation but there was one nice thing it did in Android 9: you could flip the pill to the right and hold it to scroll through open apps until you've reached the app you wanted to switch to (or move your finger left/right to scroll in that direction), and only then lift the finger.

Unfortunately that only worked in Android 9. In Android 10 you could only swipe to the very next app. Not sure why they butchered that carousel navigation; probably to bring it in line with full gesture navigation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've switched to purely gesture navigation and never looked back. Wouldn't surprise me if they'd remove 2 button too eventually.

Never understood 2 button navigation, it's just a lot of wasted space for just 2 buttons. Gimme 3-4-5 buttons to do useful stuff if you're gonna use the space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really miss the remappable 5 button nav I had in Android 8...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I felt the same. 3 button do the job quicker (a single tap to get what you want) but occupy a part of the screen. Gesture makes you do more but give you back the screen estate. 2 button seems to combine the downside without offering anything advantageous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the amount of screen being occupied by 3 button navigation bar really that big? It's a few lines of text at most.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's small, but a few phones got burn in from it (my cousin's LG V30 is one example). Personally I use 3 button on a LCD screen so that's not a problem for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is burn in still an issue on devices in 2023 though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I also find the back gesture to be surprisingly convenient. It's easier to reach, in part because you can reach it from anywhere on either side of the screen. And the gestures from the bottom lets you go back/forward an app, home and also all of the recent apps. And also assistant or an app of your choice by swiping from the bottom corners.

Plus, on top of that, on LineageOS you can also bind a custom action for a second stage for the back gesture if you swipe it further away, like kill app or go back to the previous app. And left/right side from the top for notifications/quick settings, and swipe at the top for brightness.

Zero pixels used for what, 9 different actions? It's pretty sweet!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dedicated buttons for copy, paste, and undo would be amazing. I don't think Android has good support for undo though, it would be cool to undo accidental swipes like when you accidentally swipe away a notification, or if you accidentally tap the space around a dialog box and it disappears