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

Here's the showNotifications method from Android's Launcher:

private void showNotifications() {
    final StatusBarManager statusBar = (StatusBarManager) getSystemService(STATUS_BAR_SERVICE);
    if (statusBar != null) {
        statusBar.expand();
    }
}

(which, as Robby indicated, is the "statusbar" system service).