Question

I have this Activity that hides the status bar (full screen) but I would like to give the user the ability to show the notification area at any point. Is there a way to tell Android to show the notification area from code, you know, with the fancy pull down animation and everything, even though the status bar is not showing? I have looked into NotificationManager and all of the Notification api’s but haven’t found anything. Starting to doubt there is a way.

Answer 1

Yes you can add this code to wherever you want it to execute

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

And add this permission

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