https://www.cnet.com/news/the-real-reason-android-p-uses-gestures/ >It'd be tempting to point to the iPhone X as Google's chief inspiration. After all, the iPhone X, which launched this past September, relies exclusively on gestures, or swipes, to navigate the phone, after Apple dramatically removed the iPhone's iconic home button. >But Google's Android team has been working on Android P "nonstop for at least a year," Dave Burke, Google's VP of engineering for Android, told CNET at Google's annual I/O conference this week.