Samsung One UI (Android Pie) feature focus: Navigation button gestures

Last updated: November 27th, 2018 at 09:07 UTC+01:00

A smashing alternative for software navigation keys that Samsung introduced with the Galaxy A7 (2018) is condign a standard feature with Android Pie. With Samsung adopting software navigation keys for all devices, in that location are going to be many complaints about those keys taking up useful screen estate. And that'south where navigation button gestures in Android 9 come up in.

Replace navigation keys with gestures

On Android Nougat and Oreo, Galaxy phones come with an option to temporarily hide the navigation bar using an actress button next to the habitation, back, and recents navigation keys. This selection is being replaced past Total screen gestures, which requires yous to swipe upward from the bottom of the screen to go back, go to the home screen, or access the recent apps screen. Basically, you swipe upward where these buttons would be placed if the navigation bar wasn't hidden. To help you get used to the gestures, yous tin enable gesture hints to see where y'all would need to swipe upward for each of the navigation key actions.

And these gestures are like shooting fish in a barrel to get used to, if we may say so ourselves. Plus, even when the navigation bar is hidden, y'all tin change the order of the back and recents keys. If you're running the Android Pie beta on your Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9+, you lot can find theFull screen gesturesoption in the Display » Navigation bar section of the Settings app.

Do try it out and let us know whether y'all will exist using these gestures or if you lot prefer the standard navigation keys. As well see more of what yous tin wait from Android Pie and One UI on your Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Source: https://www.sammobile.com/2018/11/27/samsung-one-ui-feature-navigation-gestures

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