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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by mrguyorama on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:18PM (#36911874)
I don't understand how anyone is satisfied with ANY "gesture" based navigation, I still have the classic android 3 button setup from the good old days. I have a dedicated back button that is ONLY a back button, so no issue with it changing the "activity" you are working in like the modern android back gesture, a dedicated home button that always goes home, and a dedicated "bring up all alive activities" button that functions exactly like alt-tab does.

Why did any of this ever need to change? Why did dedicated buttons with defined roles and useful, predictable functionality that are always available, always work, are never misinterpreted as a drag instead of a "gesture", that you don't have to know ahead of time how to interact with the OS to discover how to interact with the OS.

Why the fuck are phone OS's navigated completely by a scheme that is impossible to discover without someone teaching you?

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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by BLKNSLVR on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:58PM (#36916024)
Last time I installed LineageOS I tried the gesture navigation and it did provide a hands-on tutorial as part of enabling it.

- Swipe up (from anywhere) to access the app tray

- Swipe up and hold to see the app history / currently in-memory apps

- Swipe from the side of the screen to go back (can be configured to just be the bottom half of the screen and a "thinner" sensitivity area - which I needed because the defaults were stupid and made 'back' such a frequent accidental action).

They're the only gestures I've bothered to learn, and I get by. Still not sure it's better or worse than have the 10 pixel space at the bottom for the navigation buttons.

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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by vmladenov on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:59PM (#36926566)
Gestures that can start from nearly the entire left edge are more natural-feeling to me than aiming for a fixed button.
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