

Home Buttonįrom the same developer as Navigation Bar, Home Button gives the bottom of your screen a glowing colored hue, which you can then tap or long-tap to act as a home button. What makes these better is that you can tweak them all you like, decide how long they stay on the screen before the disappear (or lock them if you like), change the icons’ size and even the background color behind the icons. This app gives you the Material Design Back, Home and Recents buttons across the bottom of your screen, just like the official ones. If your home button has let you down, and you’ve always been intrigued by those minimal icons that most Android phones use for navigation, then Navigation Bar is for you. In the long run, probably replace your phone, but in the meantime, here are several Android apps that you can use to replace a broken home button.

Whether physical or virtual buttons are better is a debate I’m not going to dive into, but what do you do if your home button happens to break somewhere down the line?
