Google possibly removed the back button in its gesture system

The Android Stock gesture system has been highly criticized for several reasons, but one of them was that it only reduced one button, it still had two buttons, the back one and the home button, only the multitasking button had been eliminated. And although the source of criticism came from more places, this may be fixed by removing the back button in your gesture system.

It seems that the news of Android Q does not stop growing, and this time it is something highly anticipated, as is the remapping of the buttons in the Android stock gestures.

Generally, each company has its own gesture system, but those of Apple, OnePlus and Xiaomi, are usually the ones that users like the most. Google's on the other hand was criticized for having to use two buttons, instead of one or a better implemented gesture system.

No back button? How does it work?

Now things change, because some users of the Google Pixel have been able to test the new gestures that Google possibly implements in Android Q. Where the back button is eliminated and replaced by an intuitive movement of the main button to the left, something much more natural and fluid, which added to the new animations for multitasking, exponentially improves gestures.

A system similar to the one that Xiaomi could have that you have to do a lateral slide from the edge of the screen but implemented in the central button of the Android gesture bar. It seems that it is experimental, and that nothing tells us that this is the system that will be implemented, it can be modified (or not).

But since an image is worth a thousand words, we leave you a video that the people of XDA Developers have made to show how the new gestures work.

We do not know when we will have more information about it, we will surely have to wait until Google I / O 2019  (possibly May 7), although we may see hints of the new gestures in the Android Developer Previews. Preview builds intended for developers to test and know what to expect.

In the case of Android P, nothing was known about the gestures until Developer Preview number 2, so we may have to wait a long time to find out if this is going to come true. 

Anyway, if you want to try something similar, the people at XDA Developers also created an application to emulate this effect that is already in the Play Store. If you want to try something similar maybe you can take a look.