Android’s physical navigation buttons are back on Googlebooks, but not the way you think

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A communal misconception I've seen with Googlebooks is that the Quick Insert and Google logo keys are new. They're not, arsenic they first debuted a mates of years ago connected immoderate Chromebooks. But determination is thing caller for Googlebooks that's ripped consecutive from Android phones circa 2014.

On each Googlebook keyboard, the F1, F2, and F3 keys are the aged triangle, circle, and quadrate navigation icons that archetypal debuted connected Android 5.0 Lollipop. These were the back, home, and app switcher buttons agelong earlier everything went to gesture-based navigation, and they're still built into phones connected Android 17 arsenic an alternative. On Googlebook OS, these keys bash w …

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