I've recently acquired a Redmi Note 5, and I quite appreciate the gesture navigation. (Settings -> System & Device -> Full screen display -> Full screen gestures) However, I also like using app pinning when friends borrow my phones.
Traditionally, to unpin an app you have to hold Back and Overview at the same time. But in gesture mode, there is no navigation bar to press buttons in.
As it currently stands, I have to reboot the phone to unpin an app, which is impractical for various reasons.
Is there a way to unpin apps using gestures? (Or perhaps unpin with the fingerprint sensor or something like that, anything not involving the navigation bar. Or maybe even disabling gesture mode when an app is pinned)
am task lock stop
works for unpinning any app. The problem is that I cannot use either of them without root access. As long as Android is rooted, you can use a Gesture control type app to setup a systemwide gesture, which when activated would kill the front-end app or run that command.