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I Think I’ve Given Up On Android

I considered switching back to Android a while ago and wrote about it here:

I’ve Had It With Android’s BS

In that article I wrote about my personal complaints about Android’s navigation gestures/buttons. And it was pointed out that Samsung allows you to hide the ‘gesture hint’ (that white pill thing at the bottom).

And this actually solves most of the problems I’ve had with Android navigation gestures: the fact that in many apps there’s this random bar behind the gesture hint. Sometimes it’s black, sometimes it’s white. But every time it’s ugly.

In order to hide this bar developers must specifically tell Android to render the app in ‘edge to edge’ mode. I’ve enabled this on some of my apps but many developers, including Google themselves apparently, have not.