Could Android 11 be restricting navigation bar customizing apps - Android

Android 11 is now in developer preview, not distributed yet to the general public, but we are already getting some reports on issues it might be presenting. has drawn our attention to a Reddit thread in which some users complain about Android 11’s incapability to run navigation bar modifying apps.

The apps in question either don’t start, force close or crash. Such apps have been used to customize Android’s navigation bar and gestures.

Apparently, in order for most of those apps to work correctly, they rely on a command called “wm overscan” on the backend. The overscan command hides ...