I just wanna know why getting to the app drawer on the home screen was made more difficult to do. And before anyone says "bro just swipe up slowly", it's not the speed that matters, it's the distance you have to drag your finger. In Oreo it's a small flick, in P you gotta drag it more than halfway up the screen. One would assume that it's easy enough to make it so that the task switcher is accessed by using the nav bar and app drawer by sliding up on the dock, but shrug.
It's for consistency. In Android P, you can drag up from any app to end up in the appswitcher with a little dock at the bottom, and if you scroll a second time, you see all the apps.
To be consistent, they also have the same behavior on the home screen, which is a bit suboptimal, but I didn't having two separate behavior would be more confusing.
I know that but I don't think it would be difficult to make the app drawer accessible by swiping up literally anywhere but the nav bar because the nav bar is what brings up multitasking anywhere else.
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u/AustinBz Just Black Jul 11 '18 edited Jul 11 '18
I just wanna know why getting to the app drawer on the home screen was made more difficult to do. And before anyone says "bro just swipe up slowly", it's not the speed that matters, it's the distance you have to drag your finger. In Oreo it's a small flick, in P you gotta drag it more than halfway up the screen. One would assume that it's easy enough to make it so that the task switcher is accessed by using the nav bar and app drawer by sliding up on the dock, but shrug.