Android P navigation bar removes “Recents” button

Judging from the current trend, the continued weakening of mobile phones will become the mainstream. Technical support includes full-screen, under-screen fingerprints, and future screen-down cameras, sensors, and even handsets.

Without the buttons, the interaction relies entirely on the screen, so on the iPhone X iOS 11 system, Apple further enhanced the gestures, especially the bottom of the screen slides back to the desktop, slide up and hover to enter multitasking.

This idea was quickly followed by a number of Android manufacturers, and they introduced a full-screen gesture.

According to 9to5google reports, the next major version of Android P in Android development may support native gesture operations.

The evidence is more obvious. Google introduced a screenshot of Android P’s support for DNS/TLS in the official blog on Friday (April 13). The design of the navigation bar is very different.

Note that the left side is still the return key, but the Home key and the multi-tasking key are integrated as an oblate type key. At the same time, ARS stated that in some scenarios, the navigation bar is even hidden.

Therefore, Google may design the bottom two keys. When it is resident, the single point implements return and home operations respectively, in which the Home is long-time multitasking.

Gesture logic is that the upper left slide is a return, the right upper slide is Home, and the multitasking when the upper slide is hovering.

As for the voice function, it may be activated as a single physical button like Samsung, LG.

According to the evolution path of Android P, DP2 will be launched at the I/O conference in May this year. The official version may be scheduled from August to September.

By the way, some people may say that Android is “plagiarizing” the iPhone X. It may be that you haven’t experienced Palm’s WebOS. You really need to pursue it. The originator should be it.