Android had their own best practices. Designers would often be in the Apple ecosystem and design Android things around iPhone best practices. So you'd get Andr

Android had their own best practices. Designers would often be in the Apple ecosystem and design Android things around iPhone best practices. So you'd get Android design as some kind of hybrid. There used to be something called an up button on Android. It was the arrow on the top left. It would jump up a category, so if you were browsing deep into a bunch of games, it would jump you up into the games category, instead of you having to press back 40 times. But designers saw top left back arrow as a back button because who design it don't use it. Why would you have two back buttons? Why even make a back button so far from your thumb? The Google apps actually follow Android best practices. This isn't always good. There's a new trend towards accessibility, which ends up being a flex of designers putting gray on gray and still pass accessibility guidelines.