If the notification bar is not visible on the Android screen, which may be the case if your device is using a custom launcher, swipe your finger in an upward motion first to make it visible.

Android’s notification bar puts all sorts of info at your fingertips — and with one simple tweak, you can make it do even more.

The notification and status bar in Android 6.0 Marshmallow can be completely customized. This quick how to guide explains all users need to know to do it.

Google is experimenting with a weird change for Android that puts full-color app icons in the status bar for notifications, and it's weird.

In turn, several notification bar tweaking apps have sprouted all over the Android community. Joining the growing list of apps of this sort is Notification Toggle.

Add shortcuts to your notification shade on Android 1Tap Quick Bar can take all of your toggle widgets and shortcuts and turn them into something more accessible.

Having notification icons in the status bar is one of Android’s advantages. That is not something iOS offers, and it’s a really neat feature to have. You can always glance at the status bar to ...

Drop down notifications can vary a lot from one Android handset to another. These three apps will help you customize the look and contents of your notification bar.

Android 13 preview locks down notifications, adds more to the tablet taskbar Tablets get an apps button in the taskbar and what sounds like a smart-display mode.

In a sense, Android’s DND mode comes close to enabling that in one other way. I could set up DND to only hide notifications from the top bar, but allow them to be visible everywhere else ...

Chrome 42 for Android let websites send notifications to the notification bar in the same way a native app would.