Please correct my English.

The Lemming formerly known as /u/[email protected]

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    1. Android gesture navigation replaces the system back button with a swipe from the edge of the screen. This in itself causes an issue with apps that (since long before gesture navigation was introduced to Android) use an edge swipe gesture to activate an in-app feature. The first app that comes to mind as an example is Termux. Swiping in from the edge of the screen opens the side menu in the app. But with gesture navigation enabled, this same edge gesture instead triggers the system back button, closing the app. I have seen some third party Android skins offer an option to only trigger the back gesture when swiping from the bottom 50% of a side edge. In the case of Termux, swiping from the top 50% would then open the menu as expected. Alas, GrapheneOS does not have this option.
    2. Aside from this intrinsic issue, I also experience bugs in certain apps that are resolved by switching to 3-button navigation. From what I can tell, this might be fixed by these apps implementing newer/different Android APIs or something. I don’t know. I’m not an Android developer.
    3. Even with the previous issues resolved, system gesture navigation is all about swiping from the edge of the screen. What I want (and Thunder provides) is the ability to swipe from anywhere onscreen in order to go back. Sort of like swiping away a card. This is a behaviour that is only implemented at the app level.



  • Are you referring to the Android system navigation mode (Settings app > System > Gestures > Navigation mode)? I use 3-button navigation, because setting that to gesture navigation just causes too many problems in various apps.

    But aside from that, my current Lemmy app, Thunder, allows me to swipe from anywhere onscreen to navigate back. Not just from the edge. Which is much better for accessibility purposes.