How to Show Status Bar Icons on the Right like Betternet?

Question

Before you flag this as duplicate, I researched this question a long time ago and found this and this , which both suggest that the right side of the notification bar is a system apps ONLY zone .

However, I recently used Betternet and after connecting to the VPN, these two icons appear:

Betternet is not a system app, and my HTC On3 M8 is not rooted. How did they do it?

Answer 1

The left icon is a Notification . These can be displayed by any app.

The right icon is a standard icon, added there by Android, indicating an active VPN connection. These are not put there by apps directly, though certain things that apps implement (eg, VpnService ) might result in an icon being shown there.