style="font-weight:500;">Expandable notifications</span> let you dsplay more types of content in your notifications. Users can expand them with a simple gesture.</p>
<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em">Developers can create custom notification styles
like those shown in the examples above to display rich content and actions.</p>
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<h3>Expandable notifications</h3>
<p>Notifications have long been a unique and popular feature on Android. Developers can use them to place important or time-based information in front of users in the notification bar, outside of the app’s normal UI.</p>
<p>Android 4.1 brings a major update to the Android notifications framework. Apps can now display <strong>larger, richer notifications</strong> to users that can be expanded and collapsed with a pinch. Notifications support <strong>new types of content</strong>, including photos, have configurable priority, and can even include multiple actions.</p>
<p>Android 4.1 brings a major update to the Android notifications framework. Apps can now display <strong>larger, richer notifications</strong> to users that can be expanded and collapsed with a pinch or swipe. Notifications support <strong>new types of content</strong>, including photos, have configurable priority, and can even include multiple actions.</p>
<p>Through an improved <strong>notification builder</strong>, apps can create notifications that use a larger area, up to 256 dp in height. Three <strong>templated notification styles</strong> are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>BigTextStyle — a notification that includes a multiline TextView object.</li>
<li>BigInboxStyle — a notification the shows any kind of list such as messages, headlines, and so on.</li>
<li>BigInboxStyle — a notification that shows any kind of list such as messages, headlines, and so on.</li>
<li>BigPictureStyle — a notification that showcases visual content such as a bitmap.</li>
