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[Kalvin Kerns]

Basically, it works like this (and anyone chime in if I'm wrong or miss something).

The pill is the home button, a short swipe up from the pill brings up your recent apps, a second short swipe (or a single long swipe) up from the pill brings up the app drawer. The back button appears whenever you're able to go back (in an app, in the settings, in the browser, etc). Long pressing the pill brings up Google Assistant (like it previously did long pressing the home button).

It's really.not any worse than the single & double swipe down for the notification shade & quick tiles. I decided to start using it since it was seemed like that's the direction they we're heading, and honestly it's second nature now. It really only took a few days to get used to, and I've been using Android since 2010 (my first phone had 4 buttons: home, menu, back, and search).

Good deal, thank you.

 

[mwboost]

Just my opinion but I find the gestures stupid. Also there is still a bar across the bottom with gestures. Which is kinda dumb when they should give you an option to auto hide it. Like other companies that let you auto hide the nav buttons.
In saying that it would give you more screen.

 

[TraderGary]

Just my opinion but I find the gestures stupid. Also there is still a bar across the bottom with gestures. Which is kinda dumb when they should give you an option to auto hide it. Like other companies that let you auto hide the nav buttons.
In saying that it would give you more screen.

Yet another reason I use Nova Prime launcher.