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Navigation gestures in Android 10 and beyond have been controversial since day one, and years after their launch, Google is still tweaking the formula. In Android 12, navigation gestures now work instantly if you’re using a full screen app.
This tweak, noticed by people at Android Police, allows return and home navigation gestures to work with one swipe instead of two. In Android 10 and Android 11, full screen apps temporarily turn off these swipes, which means you’ll have to swipe twice; once to activate the gesture, and the second to perform it.
Notably, this may not work for all apps, but it’s a change that’s mostly appreciated in those that support it. Google Photos is perhaps the best example of how this should to work. When viewing photos in full screen, navigation gestures work normally even if the navigation bar is hidden. YouTube, on the other hand, doesn’t support this properly, still requiring two swipes to use gestures. Twitter is in the same boat with the navigation gestures on Android 12 behaving exactly like the older versions, as shown below.
This definitely fixes a frustrating quirk of Android’s otherwise pretty good navigation gestures. Of course, given that it looks like apps will have to opt for this … it might take a bit before we can consistently use it.
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