Android Q May Eliminate Back Button; Giving Way To Single Capacitive Button

According to a report by XDA, Google will be making further improvements to the gesture controls of its upcoming Android Q operating system. Of those improvements, one of them may result in Android Q having only one capacitive button.

Specifically, XDA found a pre-release build of Android Q that only features the home button, or “the pill” as they dub it. While the “recent apps” (which was removed in Android 9 Pie) and “back” buttons are gone, you’ll still be able to access their functions via gestures.

So what do you do when you want to go back to a previous page? It’s surprisingly simple – just swipe the home button to the left.

All that said, it’s important to note that this is based on a leaked experimental build of Android Q. Google could decide that it doesn’t like the current implementation of gestures, and there’s a chance that the consumer version will be quite different.

But we probably shouldn’t be too worried about it just yet. After all, phones that have access to Android 9 Pie are still few and far in between.

(Source: XDA)

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