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The third-party navigation app stands apart from the crowd with an emphasis on off-road navigation and offline maps. Antuan started out in the automotive industry the old-fashioned way, by turning ...

Sygic is one of the biggest names in the navigation space, as its software comes with advanced features you don't typically find easily. Wrong-way driver warnings are the best example, as they rely on ...

Android Auto is getting yet another third-party navigation app in Gaia GPS. What’s the appeal of this one? If you’re a fan of getting off of the beaten path, it might just come in handy. Gaia GPS is a ...

GPS issues in Android Auto have been around for way too long, and despite some updates bringing improvements in this regard, the whole thing is still there with no other patch in sight. In the last ...

Gesture navigation has existed since the launch of Android 10 in 2019. While the classic three-button navigation system is still available, gesture navigation frees up space on your screen by moving ...

Google is working to bring predictive back support to three-button navigation in Android 16. Predictive back lets you preview where the back button will take you. Currently, this feature only works ...

Navigation on smartphones has changed over the years, but for the past few years, gestures have become commonplace. Samsung, though, is stubbornly still defaulting to Android’s three-button navigation ...

Google is adding a new setting to Android that lets you reorder the three-button navigation bar. This will allow users to switch from the default “Back, Home, Recents” layout to the “Recents, Home, ...

In Android 10, Google put the final touches to its gesture controls, ditching the last few soft keys and creating a system more like the gesture navigation in Apple’s iOS. The latest version, Android ...

Google’s latest Chrome 129 update introduces a subtle, yet impactful change to its Android gesture navigation experience. Released earlier this week, the update aligns the navigation bar’s theme with ...