You can configure on Android (at least I can on my Pixels and Motorolas) whether you want gesture navigation or 3-button navigation. The gesture navigation is

You can configure on Android (at least I can on my Pixels and Motorolas) whether you want gesture navigation or 3-button navigation. The gesture navigation is similar to what iOS does (not the same), and the 3-button navigation is basically the old version of the Android navigation. This article could help you understand where Android stands today https://www.makeuseof.com/three-button-navigation-vs-gesture-navigation-android https://www.makeuseof.com/three-button-navigation-vs-gesture... I'm a Flutter developer working on iOS and Android apps, my 2cts is that the Android back button experience is more predictable (both with the gesture navigation and with the 3-button navigation): on iOS, the back swipe doesn't always work and sometimes I need to track down where the on-screen back button or back icon is. On ios, sometimes instead of swiping horizontally, I need to drag the panel down, and even though it's easy to figure out based on the screen which one will work, it's one more way of doing things, whereas on Android, I can just hit the back button in most scenarios.