Name: Android gestures are risky, here's why
Uploaded: 2018-05-24T01:24:37.000Z
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- The Android P public beta has been out for a week or two.

I've been playing with it, you've been playing with it,

and you already know that there's a bunch of gestures

that you use to get around the OS but here's a question,

I'm not gonna at the end of this video come down on

'They're the best, they're great, you should love them,'

Google decided to go with gestures and swiping

instead of just tapping buttons on the bottom.

honestly because they just feel different,

and I know that's really floofy and soft and whatever

but you're affective relationship with the phone

and for Android in particular, that tactility,

we've had this thing called material design

and there's something sitting on top of the other thing

instead of tapping a button and having it move itself

it feels more, like I said before, human.

When I say it's more human, I mean that kind of literally.

When you move something around in the physical world,

you're actually moving a thing through space

and your brain thinks spatially in a lot of ways.

When you tap an icon, it's like a if, this, then, that,

sort of programmatic thing that just happens

and it just feels a little bit more natural

even though I hate the word intuitive and UI,

but we can come back to that in a whole other video.

that are actually really important to mention.

The first is I'm testing this on a Pixel Two XL

and so what we see here might be slightly different

than what you see on other Android phones

it's some combination of animation, speed, and physics.

It's not even as good as what I experienced

when I used it on Google's campus the week before IO,

that might've been a different build, I'm not sure.

Anyway, enough caveats, let's get into it.

If we're talking major new functionality with these gestures

on the Pixel I think there's two that are really important.

to a really important thing in the overview screen.

you have these predictive apps at the bottom

which are really accurate, I use them all the time now

and you also get the Google search bar which is a big deal,

you just swipe up tap and then you can keep typing

and in Android P, it's actually gonna be way more powerful

and you'll end up with what you want way faster than before.

'Yo, Dieter, the square button does that just fine'

'in the beta, you don't need the swipe to do that.'

that this gesture interface is more efficient.

you don't have to hit the home button exactly.

pretty much anywhere at the bottom of the screen

to get to this new overview screen or the new gestures.

The second thing is no matter what app you're in,

so you have instant access to all of your apps

instead of hitting home then swiping up for the app drawer,

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