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Android's modern gesture navigation is awful. I like gesture navigation on ubuntu touch, sailfish, webos, just about everywhere I've used it except android, but I cannot stand android's. Why does swiping from both sides do the same thing? Why does swiping from the bottom do multiple different things depending on how you swipe? Why does swiping along the bottom to switch apps rearrange them so going back and forth is unpredictable? The old two button semi-gesture navigation was so much better.
My god, the rearranging on swipe is the most annoying feature I've ever experienced. The feature would be a godsend but it's rendered useless by the godawful rearrangement. People might say it has a pattern that can be learned(never heard that btw), but whatever it is, it's so unituitive that I'd rather just pull up all the minimized app. Shame that it's implemented right on browsers but not an os.
This has been driving me crazy in MacOS where the three finger swipe up gesture from the trackpad rearranges everything. Add some other weird ux choices and you can't switch between two windows without looking at the screen.
Swipe from the side to go back can be really annoying, if you're trying to highlight text from the side or do some other operation that Android decides is a swipe from the side. I'm forever going back when I don't want to.
I'm not familiar with swipe on Android but I know that:
both get really frustrating if you do a lot of text selection since they will fire for the wrong thing and you'll have to restart. Especially on text fields where you've typed before the swipe triggered.
I disabled swipe for back in the web browser on a mac too. When you're scrolling up and down so much it doesn't take too much for that to misfire and for you to lose work, or on a slow internet connection need to wait for the page to load again