• Guster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I have a Xiaomi phone with Nova as my launcher. What exactly am I missing out on?

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      11 months ago

      Gesture navigation (instead of having the navigation bar at the bottom edge of the screen). I’m too lazy to bother to ever learn to move away from the navigation bar myself, but maybe it’s great and I’m missing out on getting that extra bit of screen.

      • Guster@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Aha one… Well I kinda like the buttons too. Always feel so awkward when I used my friends iPhone which this gesture replacement sounds identical to

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          11 months ago

          No, that was on older software. On the latest ones you simply cannot use gestures with 3rd party launchers. My brother has one and I’ve tried it.

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        11 months ago

        Why would anyone want to use gesture navigation? If I would I could just buy an Iphone

    • stappern@lemmy.oneOP
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      11 months ago

      on this phone you cant use fullscreen gestures with anything other than the regular launcher