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The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the three-is-too-much dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

The reason given is:

Specifically, Google wanted to eliminate the button that lets you view all your open apps, making it easier to see your apps with a swipe.

But the underlying reason for wanting to do it comes from this quote from Dave Burke, Google's VP of engineering for Android

"Android have those three buttons at the bottom: Home, back and something else," Burke said. "And it's, it's a little too much, a little too complicated. I think of it as like walking into a room with three doors and it's like, 'which door do I go in?'"

My response to Burke would be: Well, Dave, when you walk into the room, and there's three doors, and one of them is labeled "bedroom", one of them is labeled "kitchen", and one of them is labeled "bathroom"; it's pretty easy to decide whether you're tired, hungry, or need to take a leak - so maybe you should look at having standards for labeling things.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:56PM (2 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:56PM (#680093) Journal
    Unfortunately it's fake. Android doesn't actually give the user the ability to end processes here, it's more of a placebo to placate you, like the 'walk' buttons that don't do anything.

    So when you swipe stuff off the list what you're actually doing is - swiping stuff off the list. Not necessarily anything more. The process *might* end. It might not. Looks the same to you.

    So while this will undoubtedly upset many users, it's the loss of a cherished illusion of something android NEVER let you really have in the first place, but that doesn't mean it won't be felt.

    Android is such a steaming pile to begin with, I'd wish instant death on it but I'm afraid that would only allow iOS to metastasize even further.

    A pox on them both, and on the defective by design hardware they animate as well. The entire industry is an anti-human potlach of wasted resources.

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:11PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:11PM (#680157)

    I thought it was just a history list, with most of the processes in the literal 'background' having saved their state to 'disk' and stopped running.

  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:37PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:37PM (#680164)

    It's not an "end process" control though. It's a "please turn off" button. Behaved apps will behave. If you want superuser type controls then stock Android will be very disappointing.

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