What does “semi-public service” mean in Android?

Question

I am looking for a way to turn off the animation of opening and closing the notification bar (status bar). Behavior and animation are hard-coded into StatusBarService. The documentation says that StatusBarService is "semi-public." What does “semi-public service” mean?

Answer 1

Semisocial, which means that the public has access only to parts of the service. There will be certain functionality that you cannot change, and some of them you can. Another example of semi-public functionality is found near KeyCodewhere it is KEYCODE_HOMEnever sent to applications to protect users from malicious applications.