So i just bought Asus rog phone 6d and im extremely bothered by the lack of the back ,home and whatewer is the 3 one called buttons on the news androids. Is this something you all got used to with time or does this still bother you( IT really fells much less intuitive compared to the old 3 buttons ,alghtough preferably i would love to have both since the back gesture seems kinda usefull )?
I think there’s a setting to bring back the buttons, if you want that.
Settings -> System -> Gestures -> System navigation
Just upgraded my phone and found this setting myself. Thank god you can change it back to the 3 buttons.
I’m so used to gestures I can barely use a phone with button navigation. When I have to help my parents/grandparents with their smartphones I take longer just because they use buttons lol.
Also the 3 button navigation is not gone afaik. All OEMs I’ve used have it buried in the settings somewhere.
I prefer gestures. But if you like buttons just go to settings and turn them on.
Definitely try gestures.
Being able to “go back” from a gentle swipe at any height is a blessing for the small hand. The rest of options are really, really intuitive.
Unless you have some mobility issues, you’ll never come back after a week.
i’ve no mobility issues, but i can’t stand that back gesture. it interferes with the ability to open drawers; and i can’t spam it quickly to get out of a “deep” page in an app
gestures do have pros (for instance, the ability to hold and scroll through recents) but the back gesture just seems straight up worse to me
it interferes with the ability to open drawers
It’s funny, but I tried looking around the old Material Design guidelines and I haven’t come across any mention of swiping to open a drawer. I know it was on Android Developers, but it appears that from the point of view of the design team, it wasn’t really “officially” recommended?
Regardless, Discord, IMO, offers a better implementation for side sheets, as the metaphor isn’t that you drag something from beyond the screen into view, you just drag the view itself to the side and that reveals the side sheet. And it works in the middle of the screen so it doesn’t interfere with the system gestures
I used a phone without gestures the other day and had such a hard time with it, it was crazy how unintuitive the buttons felt in comparison to the gestures!
The simple fact is, neither is actually all that intuitive, they’re learned, but gestures definitely get to be very convenient and a much quicker form of navigation.
I would definitely not want to go back.
I remember it is especially intuitive when it goes full screen in landscape mode, like I think it needs one swipe and then choosing the needed button (it is better to swipe twice) or deal with the space occupied by the Android buttons on the right edge of your screen… iugh.
I jumped to the Android bandwagon later (2020) and as I came from iOS I never used them, but I tried them anyway… And they are not for me…
