Unpin application with adb shell commands in android lollipop

Question

Summary

Is there a way to unpin apps in lollipop using shell commands

with adb iv tried:

adb shell input keyevent --longpress 4 187

but this never worked

Why i want to do this

1) i'm making a root application that replaces the on screen navigation buttons and need a way to unpin other apps

2) when using a virtual device and i pin a app there is no way for me to press back and recents at the same time with my mouse

in development, just being able to kill the app helped me: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3117310/379767 — Hannes Struß, Mar 30 '15 at 08:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '17 at 06:57

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Try this command to unpin the foreground app:

am task lock stop `dumpsys activity | grep -A2 "(dumpsys activity recents)"| grep '#'| cut -d ' ' -f 7| cut -c 2-`

answered Nov 21 '17 at 06:57

Clownfish

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 09 '20 at 13:12

0

adb shell am task lock stop `dumpsys activity | grep -A2 '(dumpsys
activity recents)'| grep '#'| cut -d ' ' " \
                "-f 7| cut -c 2-

This works with Android 9+ devices

edited Jan 09 '20 at 13:12

Machavity

answered Jan 09 '20 at 11:40

visahan ashok

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 18 '18 at 20:56

-1

This works with android 4.4.2

adb shell su -c 'sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.launcher/databases/launcher.db "DELETE from favorites"'

answered Apr 18 '18 at 20:56

Connor Lee

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