18 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 67
ANDROID 10
You’ll also notice there’s a new gear icon to the
right of the description of how the new gesture works.
Here you’ll find settings to adjust Back Sensitivity,
giving you several levels for how hard you need to
swipe to trigger the back feature. You’ll want a fine
degree of control, because some apps allow for
slide-out menus and other side-screen actions. In
fact, Google has allowed for blocking out roughly
25 percent of the bottom half of the left side of the
screen (technically called a ‘vertical app exclusion
limit’), so developers can still include slide-out menus
without disrupting the back gesture. If an app has a
slide-out menu, swiping from the bottom of the left
side of the screen will pull out the menu, while swiping
from anywhere else will go back. If an app doesn’t
have a slide-out menu or side-screen action, you can
swipe anywhere to go back.Android 10 notifications
It wouldn’t be a new Android release without some
tweaks to the notification system. The changes in
Android 10 aren’t as dramatic as they were in Pie, but
they’re still meaningful.
You can still either long-press or short-swipe on a
notification in the shade to bring up the alert settings,
but there’s more to them in Android 10. Instead of
all-or-nothing Stop showing or Keep showing buttons,
you’ll be able to silence notifications or tap into a new
simplified settings menu for more granular options.
Speaking of silent notifications, you’ll also be
able to track them better in Android 10. Inside the
notification panel, you’ll find a new grouping for