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		s73ver_ on Oct 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F-Droid 1.0 released The bottom navbar has been part of the Material guidelines for a while now. Sliding sidebars are bad because of the challenges they pose for discoverability. https://material.io/guidelines/components/bottom-navigation....

on_and_off on Oct 19, 2017 [–]

They are also on top ... with our huge phones, it is a pain to reach.

Anecdotally, resources wise it makes me happy to do not have sliding so I don't need to maintain 3 pages in memory

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