How can I programmatically open/close notifications in Android?

Question

I\'ve searched everywhere, but can\'t find anything in the SDK or on Google on how to do this. I know it\'s possible because all the custom launchers are able to do it via a

Answer 1

Sadly there's still no official API (requested here), but for now, you can use this code, which I've generalized from all of the answers I've found :

// based on https://gist.github.com/XinyueZ/7bad2c02be425b350b7f 
// requires permission: "android.permission.EXPAND_STATUS_BAR"
@SuppressLint("WrongConstant", "PrivateApi")
fun setExpandNotificationDrawer(context: Context, expand: Boolean) {
    try {
        val statusBarService = context.getSystemService("statusbar")
        val methodName =
                if (expand)
                    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 17) "expandNotificationsPanel" else "expand"
                else
                    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 17) "collapsePanels" else "collapse"
        val statusBarManager: Class<*> = Class.forName("android.app.StatusBarManager")
        val method: Method = statusBarManager.getMethod(methodName)
        method.invoke(statusBarService)
    } catch (e: Exception) {
        e.printStackTrace()
    }
}