Wanted to see how everyone in the community felt about the using the android navigation bar buttons vs using gesture control.
I’ve used the navigation buttons since they released on android and just recently started trying to use the gesture based navigation. It’s been a little difficult for me to adapt to it so far, but curious what others experience has been.
Before this phone i had a galaxy J7 2016 so i use the bar.
I’m so used to gesture control now that I struggle to go back when I need to sort out my mum’s phone for her.
I have and use both. But for gestures I use the one hand operation from Samsung.
I still prefer the navigation buttons. I just can’t get used to gesture controls
I’m using the aosp/pixel gesture nav. Took a bit to get used to and I rarely have weird glitches (like using the fast swipe to previous app, but the app manager is yeeting to the last app or so; the nav bar/pill being visible in a video; the pill being on the wrong side of the display after having it rotated), but I like the look and feel. Also I’m still hoping that we will get to the point where it’s “embedded” like in iOS.
The back gesture is fine until it takes me out of an app. I hate that. Sometimes I trigger it unintentionally because I’m trying to swipe in an app but the system picks it up instead.
This stopped happening for me once I lowered the back gesture sensitivity all the way. It was a little tedious at first trying to grab the very edge of my screen, but I got used to it pretty quickly
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I just use gestures.
I much prefer gestures
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I prefer navigation bar, but I tolerate gesture controls due to the ease of swiping between apps.
I really dislike gestures as I’ll accidentally trigger them all the time. I just want physical buttons back. They’re far superior for me. Sadly it is not a common opinion so I’ll just have to deal with whatever is popular.
When I got my P7P i had to switch back to the bar immediately and I was “navigating” out of games/apps with the gesture.
Once I got used to gesture controls in android 10 I never looked back. It was hard to adapt but now it’s muscle memory.
Gestures for me, although I don’t mind using the navbar.
Gestures solely for the edge swipe to go back. It just makes sense and I can never go back. Plus one-handing big phones with the nav bar is tough
This 100% gestures just feel more fluid for me at this point.