Pie update has brought the new navigation gestures system. We have three options - the old three button system, the pixel navigation with two buttons, and the new OnePlus one.
The old one and the pixel one are no good for me. I'm used to old phones with physical buttons below the screen, so all my typing habits treat the bottom of the screen as space. If I have any nav buttons there I keep pressing them instead of space, and well, that's not ideal to say the least. The new OP system is just rubbish - I never feel how much should I slide up and instead of task switching I always go to home screen or press back or whatever combination. I always end up doing it wrong.
So my question is - is there any way to bring back the original nav gestures from Oreo?
Yes, going back to Oreo
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You guys using them?
It is good and I wanted to use them badly but one main thing I am missing is the additional gestures that the navigation buttons had with them.
I use to double tap on recent button to switch screen off which is not possible to do with new gestures.
Having additional app or using the physical button is what I wanted to avoid.
have been using them long time ago with the app swipe navigation. Works perfectly once you get used to it.
I'm a minimalist. I have my dock & notification bar hidden also. Love that clean approach. Best part is if anyone finds/steals it, that are clueless.
Has there been a port of the new swipe guestures to nougat? I'm on 7.1.1
I am using gesture swipes, it is nice way to use phone without buttons... For double tap to lock, there is way if you are using Nova for example.....
With Beta 7 you can double tap to sleep without nav bar
You lose all of the additional gestures you have with the navbar, but in my opinion it looks way cleaner and really emphasizes the big display. And also one less spot risking permanent burn-in!
While I do like the off-screen gestures, and do use them, I actually prefer Motorola's gestures where you can quickly 'wave' you're phone in the air and the flashlight turns on, or how you can give the phone a flick and the camera app open. It's faster IMO.
But I still would prefer a Oneplus 5t over any Motorola anyday.
Love em, with an advanced launcher like Action or Nova you've got a ton more gestures that can be assigned covering the lost shortcuts on the nav buttons and then some. Speaking for myself I've got leftover swipes and taps that remain unassigned and can get to anything I use with regularity with a single touch. I liked some of the Motorola stuff myself, like Oneplus they've kept to a mostly stock experience with genuinely useful adds that don't detract from the "stockness". For some reason I really liked being able to change the ok google command to whatever I wanted and that would probably be my top pick if Oneplus were to, ahem, borrow, something from them.
Disabled them all got tired of accidentally turning the flashlight on
What I think would be the most useful feature is iPhone's double tap (not click) to bring down UI on top. Android should support this native long ago...
Needs tweaking..Still using xposed edge gestures, because I'd like for swipe up Near back button for back, swipe up near home bottom to home, and swipe up near recents to recents. i only use this mode to disable annoying nav bar easily
Siljorfag said:
What I think would be the most useful feature is iPhone's double tap (not click) to bring down UI on top. Android should support this native long ago...
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This can be done with many of the launchers although swipe down (anywhere) fits in better with the notification shade as it already expands via swipe down. I suspect the reason it and many other things aren't standard is a lack of consensus. With the shade already working with swipes many of us have double tap allocated elsewhere the most common usage probably being for sleep and wake purposes.
It's always hard to tell the level of experience users have so don't take this the wrong way... Your post suggests you might want to consider taking a few launchers for a test drive because no matter what you like there is one that works better than what came stock.
All in all I have no problems with Pie, except for the BIG one. The new gesture control is pulled from Satan's bottom (and as a Norwegian black metal fan I know everything about that orifice!) - in K9 I rearrange my inbox every time I want to go to the home screen, and back button messes with stuff on my own home automation websites. Like turning on the radio in the bedroom when my wife's sleeping. Not a popular mistake... And on Oreo I was so glad to use the auto-hide buttons so I could have stuff full screen and still have normal navigation. Is there any way to get that back in Pie, the way it was?
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All in all I have no problems with Pie, except for the BIG one. The new gesture control is pulled from Satan's bottom (and as a Norwegian black metal fan I know everything about that orifice!) - in K9 I rearrange my inbox every time I want to go to the home screen, and back button messes with stuff on my own home automation websites. Like turning on the radio in the bedroom when my wife's sleeping. Not a popular mistake... And on Oreo I was so glad to use the auto-hide buttons so I could have stuff full screen and still have normal navigation. Is there any way to get that back in Pie, the way it was?
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+1 ... this seems to be a race to release something half-designed out into the open to see it smothered by the crowd ... the navigation is the one BIG issue that many are reporting; the auto-hide and slide to view navigation bar of S9/+ Orea is just great and must not have been redesigned ... anyways the closest an alternative is to choose the gesture navigation option and then disable the hints at the bottom of the settings page ... this way the navigation bar is hidden ... but it's not as intuitive/good as the Oreo NavBar ... ( Settings -> Display -> Navigation Bar -> ... )
and one interesting feature ... touch the home button and slide right ... hmm that is nice ... try it ...
Yeah, but as I said it's too easy to miss and do something unwanted instead of the gesture from the bottom. For me it' a race to be fancy, like the iSheep...
Well, the title. I really want the two button nav bar.
I know theres gesture nav bar, but i dont like it fully.
I want the back and home button to be tap and recent apps to be dragged up. Like two button. or home and recent apps swapped. At least the back button tap.
I also have done adb shell to get two button, but that was kinda "buggy", not fully implemented or removed.
I also have used the xda nav pill app, but it wasnt just the same. And hiding the original nav bar kinda ruined the phone.
So anyone have a solution or something? I also have stock android and oreo. I wonder if android pie works with two button on samsung?
Hello!
I received my Google 6 Pro yesterday and everything seems to work - lucky. Even the fingerprint sensor works quite well, significantly better than on my Xaomi Mi Note 10 Pro before - despite the protective film.
But what really bothers me: How should I reach the back key with my right thumb? Gesture control is nothing for me. So I would have to remap the soft keys: Last apps left, Home in the middle and back on the right. However, this doesn't seem to work that easily since Android 10.
Is there a solution?
Thanks very much
I used the Fabricated Overlays app to hide the NavBar then used Fluid Navigation Gestures to get swipe up from the bottom right to go back, middle to go home, and left for recents. It's very similar to the Samsung gestures and gives you the extra screen real estate.
El-Chico said:
Hello!
I received my Google 6 Pro yesterday and everything seems to work - lucky. Even the fingerprint sensor works quite well, significantly better than on my Xaomi Mi Note 10 Pro before - despite the protective film.
But what really bothers me: How should I reach the back key with my right thumb? Gesture control is nothing for me. So I would have to remap the soft keys: Last apps left, Home in the middle and back on the right. However, this doesn't seem to work that easily since Android 10.
Is there a solution?
Thanks very much
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I recommend "edge gestures"
I swipe down on the sides to return to home screen and swipe up for recents. However, you can customize the gestures to your liking. For example I have touch and hold on the edge to drop down the notification window. I have a large hand and using the stock gestures is frustrating.
I recently upgraded to a op9 pro from a op6, I love everything about this phone besides the new gestures. I'm used to swiping from the bottom left or right to go back and bottom middle for home/recents. It's now swipe from the sides to go back and I figured I'd get used to it but the amount of times I accidentally trigger it or try to trigger the gesture and don't infuriates me lmao. Any apps or setting to change it back to the old oxygen/android gestures? Thanks in advance!
it's easier to get used to the new gestures.
You're not going to buy old, older, older phones, so old gestures will be useless.
Jebarnes said:
I recently upgraded to a op9 pro from a op6, I love everything about this phone besides the new gestures. I'm used to swiping from the bottom left or right to go back and bottom middle for home/recents. It's now swipe from the sides to go back and I figured I'd get used to it but the amount of times I accidentally trigger it or try to trigger the gesture and don't infuriates me lmao. Any apps or setting to change it back to the old oxygen/android gestures? Thanks in advance!
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You are not the first dude.
Do a little search, there are already threads about this.
Substratum Lite, Nonavbar.apk and Fluid Gestures...
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it's easier to get used to the new gestures.
You're not going to buy old, older, older phones, so old gestures will be useless.
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yes, with gestures it is very convenient to use the side menu in Telegram or stock file manager, goodluck
gestures are terribly inconvenient, the last convenient gestures, these are two buttons, but they cannot be on at 12 oxygen
Unfortunately you can't use One handed Operation plus. It's very useful on a curved screen.
In the link above they claim there's a similar app, Edge Gestures. I haven't sampled it.
UI is everything. So anything less than optimum for the individual with the UI really screws up the usability of the device. Samsung is keenly aware of this and goes to great lengths to achieve it.
Google, less so with their absurd one size fits all global mentality.
Personally I like virtual physical buttons. I use gesture navigation occasionally to back out of poorly written software where the virtual buttons are disabled saving me a reboot.