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How To Hide Android 10 Q Navigation Bar

With Android 10 Q full gesture navigation is finally available. Google has unfortunately overlooked the option for users to simply hide the bottom navigation bar once they have become accustomed to the gestures. Thankfully there is already an app that will allow you to toggle the navbar’s visibility (well actually it just draws it below the screen). This can be done easily on rooted devices but it is also available to non-rooted phones as well. If your device DOES NOT have root access this requires a PC (Windows, Linux/BSD, or Mac) to enable the functionality.

This does NOT require your device to be rooted. The following ADB command does NOT void your devices warranty, you are just granting an additional permission to an app that is unavailable through the GUI.

If your device IS ALREADY rooted you can simply grant the app SuperUser and skip the command.

There are currently two apps that offer a toggle setting for the navigation bar once the required command has been run.

  1. Navigation Gestures - Swipe Gesture Controls! by XDA (recommended)
  2. Hide Navigation Bar by Manuel Wrage

If you are rooted: grant your selected app SuperUser, finish the on-boarding and enable the setting. Your navigation bar should now be off screen.

For those who aren’t rooted, lets now grant your selected app the secure settings permission. Depending on which app you decide to use the command will be slightly different as you are actually granting the specific app an additional system permission. 

Enable Developer Mode & USB Debugging

First you need to let your phone communicate with your PC via USB debugging.

Open your Android settings app, scroll to bottom and select “About Phone”, scroll to the bottom again and tap the build number seven(7) times, enable developer mode

Settings>About Phone>Tap Build Number 7 Times>Enable Developer Mode

Now that you’re a developer go back to the main settings page, select System, Advanced, Developer options, enable USB debugging 

Settings>System>Advanced>Developer options>USB debugging

Installing ADB

ADB or the Android Debug Bridge is available for all platforms. You can follow this in depth guide on XDA https://www.xda-developers.com/install-adb-windows-macos-linux/

If you’re on Linux you should be able to install ‘android-tools-adb’ on any Debian or Ubuntu based system. https://packages.debian.org/buster/android-tools-adb

On Arch/Manjaro systems ADB is provided through the ‘android-tools’ package. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/android-tools/

Once you have some kind of ADB binary on your system you can now plug in and trust your device, then run the following command depending on which of the toggle apps you’ve chosen.

Navigation Gestures - Swipe Gesture Controls! by XDA

adb shell pm grant com.xda.nobar android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

Hide Navigation Bar by Manuel Wrage

adb shell pm grant com.ivianuu.hidenavbar android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

If you get an error about the device not being trusted, unlock your device and trust your PC for USB debugging.

After you have successfully granted the app the permission you’re done! Now enter the app and toggle the setting on or off whenever you want! 

Disable Twitch Player Extensions

Do you dislike or even hate the extensions that overlay the video player on Twitch? I sure do. According to the official help page for extensions they "provide interactive experiences directly through the Twitch video player" in my opinion they provide needless distraction. Lets learn how to disable them.

Twitch FAQ on Extensions
Q: I am not a fan of Extensions, can I disable them as a viewer?
A: ...Extensions in the video player can be minimized but not disabled by a viewer.

http:// https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-use-extensions?language=en_US#FAQ

Now this isn't the answer that I was looking for. Let's find a different solution.

Disabling Twitch Player Extensions Through uBlock or other Content Blockers

If you find Twitch player extensions frustrating to look at you probably already have uBlock Origin installed on your browser. If not, you should switch to it from your current ad-blocker. It's free, open-source, and light weight with additional blocking functionality that makes it perfect for this. Get uBlock on GitHub

The 4 simple steps to completely disable Twitch Player Extensions

Simply click on the uBlock extension icon, select "Open the dashboard", go to "My filters", and paste in the following rule:

! Twitch.tv Player Extensions
 www.twitch.tv###js-player-extension-root
 www.twitch.tv##.extension-overlay__iframe
 ||supervisor.ext-twitch.tv/supervisor/v1/index.html$subdocument

! Additional Block for 2020
www.twitch.tv##.tw-pd-t-1.tw-justify-content-center.tw-flex-column.tw-flex.tw-c-background-base.tw-border-radius-medium.tw-align-items-center
www.twitch.tv##div:nth-of-type(3) > .tw-tooltip-wrapper.tw-relative.tw-inline-flex > .tw-relative.tw-overflow-hidden.tw-justify-content-center.tw-interactive.tw-inline-flex.tw-core-button--overlay.tw-core-button.tw-button-icon--overlay.tw-button-icon.tw-border-top-right-radius-medium.tw-border-top-left-radius-medium.tw-border-bottom-right-radius-medium.tw-border-bottom-left-radius-medium.tw-align-middle.tw-align-items-center > .tw-button-icon__icon > div > .tw-inline-flex.tw-icon--fill.tw-icon.tw-full-width.tw-align-items-center > .tw-aspect--align-top.tw-aspect > .tw-icon__svg > g > path
www.twitch.tv##div:nth-of-type(3) > .tw-tooltip-wrapper.tw-relative.tw-inline-flex > .tw-relative.tw-overflow-hidden.tw-justify-content-center.tw-interactive.tw-inline-flex.tw-core-button--overlay.tw-core-button.tw-button-icon--overlay.tw-button-icon.tw-border-top-right-radius-medium.tw-border-top-left-radius-medium.tw-border-bottom-right-radius-medium.tw-border-bottom-left-radius-medium.tw-align-middle.tw-align-items-center > .tw-button-icon__icon > div > .tw-inline-flex.tw-icon--fill.tw-icon.tw-full-width.tw-align-items-center > .tw-aspect--align-top.tw-aspect > .tw-icon__svg

Apply changes and refresh any currently open twitch page with those nasty extensions and they should be gone for good!