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Hello,
I'm trying to investigate the issue with gestures not working correctly, lagging, when using any 3rd party launcher (other than stock Launcher3).
When swiping up from the bottom, showing recent apps, the device then lags up to 20 seconds (!). Switching app does not work, going back to home screen isn't possible too.
The device isn't frozen, as swiping from left/right both shows the back arrow, but doesn't do anything. Sometimes it's possible to go back to home screen by swiping up from bottom again, multiple times. That's the only action one can make, everything else is ignored/not working, and as mentioned can take up to 20 seconds until the device can be used again.
It's not the case in 100% of swipes up from bottom, but still very often, making the device pretty much unusable.
This issue applies only to gesture navigation, when using the 3-button navigation, there's no problem.
And the issue affects any profile, owner too.
There are issues on github (closed and open) regarding this issue, there are some threads in GOS discussions, and there are lots of somewhere else in the internet. Since years.
I've tested Lawnchair, Neo Launcher, Open Launcher, Evie (discontinued, with my own apk supporting abi v8) and other open source launchers, and all of them without exception are affected by this issue.
What's the current state of knowledge about this issue? State of today, I'm not able to use any 3rd party launcher on my GOS P8P. Was there a change in stock Android, that requires any launcher to make code changes to work properly with gestures? What are 3rd party launchers doing "wrong" vs. Launcher3? And why do launchers, that work perfectly since years (Android 10 in my case) not work anymore correctly on Android 14?
I'm stuck and very frustrated about this, as Launcher3 isn't configurable, and any other launcher makes using the phone with gestures impossible.
Please any thoughts, ideas, hints, experiences, background/dev-related knowledge? Very much appreciated, thank you.