Navigation in mobile devices is an important consideration. If a user isn't able to navigate an app, he might quickly abandon it. Learn the navigation principles of Android to keep this from happening ...

Updates from Google seem to be pushing Android apps towards better utilizing the option for a transparent navigation and status bar .

Google introduced gesture navigation with its release of Android 10 in 2019. Here's how to enable the feature.

In Android 14 Beta 2, Google also introduced a developer flag that makes it possible to force the navigation bar’s color to be transparent on all apps.

More Android apps should enable a transparent navigation bar Google Chrome’s transparent navigation bar leverages an Android feature that has been around since 2019, with the launch of Android 10.