Question How to remove the navigation bar touch delay?

Hendrix7 · Jan 11, 2024

The navigation bar is the rectangle and circle and triangle at the bottom of the screen. Android has a delay for tapping the navigation bar to protect from accidentally exiting an app.

After tapping something inside an opened app, Android ignores touches on the navigation bar for around one second. While I understand the purpose of preventing accidentally exiting an app, it is more often a nuisance to have to wait a second until being able to tap the navigation bar.

It's just one second. Where is the big deal?

The big deal comes from repetition. A minor annoyance repeated often becomes a major annoyance.

How to remove this delay?

Ideally, a solution works not only on Android OS but also LineageOS and MicroG, etc. and older Android versions.

Hendrix7 · Jan 11, 2024

jwoegerbauer said:
But you can always make use of gesture navigation

Thanks for your help, but I dislike gesture control in general. I prefer straightforward buttons.

Similarly, I disable pull-to-refresh wherever possible. Pull-to-refresh is helpful less than 1 out of 20 times. The other times, it is annoying and dizzying and takes effort to be avoided.

Is there anything rooted users can do to eliminate the navigation bar touch delay?

Almost always, it prevents me from exiting an app when I want it rather than preventing me from exiting accidentally.

Hendrix7 · Jan 14, 2024

Apparently, jwoegerbauer deleted his replies.

While I am still thankful for his help, him unpublishing his replies is disrespectful towards people looking for help who find this thread in search results.

Good thing I saved his replies:
#2:

IMO there is no built-in way to disable / remove the navigation bar delay on Android devices.

But you can always make use of gesture navigation, which involves swiping up from the bottom of the screen to go home, back, or switch apps, doesn't have the same delay as the navigation bar. This is because gesture navigation gestures are considered more intentional than tapping the navigation bar, which makes it less likely that you will accidentally exit an app.

#4:

Rooted devices can ditch the pesky navigation bar delay using a custom kernel or a Xposed module.

Custom kernels like Franco and ElementalX offer delay-free navigation.

Xposed modules like NavbarFader and NavbarGestures also do the trick.

Oswald Boelcke · Jan 14, 2024

Hendrix7 said:
While I am still thankful for his help, him unpublishing his replies is disrespectful towards people looking for help who find this thread in search results.

Hello and good evening, @Hendrix7

I hope you don't mind that I disagree with your statement that the former member was disrespectful. The member did not "unpublish" his posts but requested a GDPR compliant deletion of his account by our administrators, what constitute a right of informational self-determination in the European Union. Our administrators only comply with EU regulations and the national laws derived from them.
We're well aware not not all countries provide their citizens these rights; however, we follow them not only by respect to our (then in turn former) members but also to avoid the extreme fines that could applied if such a deletion request is ignored.

I hope my information could shed more light on the situation.

Regards
Oswald Boelcke
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Hendrix7 · Jan 14, 2024

Oswald Boelcke said:
Hello and good evening, @Hendrix7

I hope you don't mind that I disagree with your statement that the former member was disrespectful. The member did not "unpublish" his posts but requested a GDPR compliant deletion of his account by our administrators, what constitute a right of informational self-determination in the European Union. Our administrators only comply with EU regulations and the national laws derived from them.
We're well aware not not all countries provide their citizens these rights; however, we follow them not only by respect to our (then in turn former) members but also to avoid the extreme fines that could applied if such a deletion request is ignored.

I hope my information could shed more light on the situation.

Regards
Oswald Boelcke
Senior Moderator

Thanks, Oswald, for your clarification.

So EU law apparently lets users hurt online forums and the continuity of conversations by revoking their helpful replies. Well, that is unfortunate.

Can't this be prevented by, for example, requiring users to release their posts under Creative Commons at the time of registration?

Oswald Boelcke · Jan 14, 2024

Hendrix7 said:
Thanks, Oswald, for your clarification.

So EU law apparently lets users hurt online forums and the continuity of conversations by revoking their helpful replies. Well, that is unfortunate.

Can't this be prevented by, for example, requiring users to release their posts under Creative Commons at the time of registration?

Sir, Madam!

I think we shouldn't polute this thread with off-topic posts. Please contact me privately if you think further discussion of laws that we're as XDA are unable to change, and me as a EU and German citizen don't want to be changed.

Regards
Oswald Boelcke

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