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About the popularity of 2 button navigation
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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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I felt the same. 3 button do the job quicker (a single tap to get what you want) but occupy a part of the screen. Gesture makes you do more but give you back the screen estate. 2 button seems to combine the downside without offering anything advantageous.
I also find the back gesture to be surprisingly convenient. It's easier to reach, in part because you can reach it from anywhere on either side of the screen. And the gestures from the bottom lets you go back/forward an app, home and also all of the recent apps. And also assistant or an app of your choice by swiping from the bottom corners.
Plus, on top of that, on LineageOS you can also bind a custom action for a second stage for the back gesture if you swipe it further away, like kill app or go back to the previous app. And left/right side from the top for notifications/quick settings, and swipe at the top for brightness.
Zero pixels used for what, 9 different actions? It's pretty sweet!
Is the amount of screen being occupied by 3 button navigation bar really that big? It's a few lines of text at most.
Yeah it's small, but a few phones got burn in from it (my cousin's LG V30 is one example). Personally I use 3 button on a LCD screen so that's not a problem for me.
Is burn in still an issue on devices in 2023 though?
I don't feel like testing it out on my own device, since haven't had one that hasn't gotten burn in yet. Especially with how expensive phones have gotten that I'll be using it beyond the usual two year upgrade path.