Every messaging app should steal Slack`s sweet new UI
(Android Central)

This is an ingenious way to address issues with gestures overlapping. It`s no secret that people have frustrations with Android 10`s gesture navigation, particularly the back gesture — and phones with curved screen edges have only exacerbated the problem. Apps that rely on slide-in drawers can be really tough to use, and when that`s a core part of the interface it can slow you down dramatically. But this week, I received a much-needed ray of hope for this system in the form of an app update. Slack, which previously had one of the worst collisions with gestures and curved screens, has redesigned its app to address both — and it`s a wonderful change that every Android app developer needs to study and implement. Android 10`s gestures don`t have to be frustrating — we just need fresh app designs. Slack used to, like many apps, rely on a slide-in drawer for switching contexts inside the app. In the case of Slack, it was to change between channels, groups, threads and messa...