Question

I found the following piece of code from the adw launcher:

Object service = launcher.getSystemService("statusbar");
if (service != null) {
    Method expand = service.getClass().getMethod("expand");
    expand.invoke(service);
}

Which throws a SecurityException: StatusBarManagerService: Neither user 123456 nor current process has android.permission.EXPAND_STATUS_BAR

So I added

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.EXPAND_STATUS_BAR" />

to my application manifest.xml, But still no luck

Answer 1

Object service = getSystemService( "statusbar" );
Class<?> statusbarManager = Class.forName( "android.app.StatusBarManager" );
Method expand = statusbarManager.getMethod( "expand" );
expand.invoke( service );

and add this to manifest:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.EXPAND_STATUS_BAR" />