After receiving ample criticism for its pill-based navigation gestures, Google decided to introduce new fullscreen gestures with the Android Q Beta builds. These new gestures appear to have been inspired by iOS, but they were half-baked and didn’t sit well with hamburger menus (or navigation drawers) that can be found in many Android apps.
In his tweet, Banes explains the new functionality saying, “Users will be able to open the drawer by peeking the drawer, and then swiping.” The best part of this implementation is that it will work with older apps that haven’t made changes based on the new gestures as well. You might not have to stretch your fingers to the top edge to access the navigation drawer after all.
🚧 The drawer behavior is changing. Users will be able to open the drawer by peeking the drawer, and then swiping. Big benefit is that this works with existing apps with “old” DrawerLayout versions. pic.twitter.com/WVyOzQFzHO
Well, Google seems to be working to find the best solution to curb the navigation drawer issue and would be pushing out the changes before the release of the final APIs and the stable beta build.
