What do you use or prefer?
Do you think Gestures will be fully adopted? Introduced in Android 9 Pie, we have the kind of half way implementation of gestures, with the home button as a pill and a back button still appearing when supposedly required. Then in Android 10 we now have full gesture implementation where to go back is also controlled via swiping in from left/right screen and no home or back button at all.
Where Apple have decided for their users what to provide, Android gives users the choice to use still the Original Button layout if preferred. But will this hamper progress? Not fully adopting one method could mean app developers are left in a difficult middle ground to try to please all. Trying to please all often leads to a poor UI experience overall. This article discusses the main issue with back button gesture in Android 10 as conflicting with other swipes when inside apps.
As a user currently on Android 8.1 (and deliberately delaying my upgrade to a newer phone to see how things play out) I'm still left wondering whether I should commit to an Android 10 phone now and try to get used to full Gestures, or just stick with home and back button. At least it doesn't affect phone choice as much now with Android as physical home button phones seemed to have died out. But with Apple iphones it does make a difference, since if you can only afford to now buy up to and including an iphone 8, you are buying a phone with still a physical home button.
Poll addition would be good...not sure how to add.
Do you think Gestures will be fully adopted? Introduced in Android 9 Pie, we have the kind of half way implementation of gestures, with the home button as a pill and a back button still appearing when supposedly required. Then in Android 10 we now have full gesture implementation where to go back is also controlled via swiping in from left/right screen and no home or back button at all.
Where Apple have decided for their users what to provide, Android gives users the choice to use still the Original Button layout if preferred. But will this hamper progress? Not fully adopting one method could mean app developers are left in a difficult middle ground to try to please all. Trying to please all often leads to a poor UI experience overall. This article discusses the main issue with back button gesture in Android 10 as conflicting with other swipes when inside apps.
As a user currently on Android 8.1 (and deliberately delaying my upgrade to a newer phone to see how things play out) I'm still left wondering whether I should commit to an Android 10 phone now and try to get used to full Gestures, or just stick with home and back button. At least it doesn't affect phone choice as much now with Android as physical home button phones seemed to have died out. But with Apple iphones it does make a difference, since if you can only afford to now buy up to and including an iphone 8, you are buying a phone with still a physical home button.
Poll addition would be good...not sure how to add.