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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Seeing weird notifications that look like spam or ads? One of your Android apps is using AirPush to put them there. Get rid of them fast.

Enhance your smartphone experience with these fun and customizable notification apps for Android.

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 ...