undocumented-behavior

I've seen process.binding('...') many times while researching through the node.js source code on github . Can anybody explain me what this function does? This function returns internal module, like require. It's not public, so you shouldn't rely on it in your code, but you can use it to play with node's low level objects, if you want to understand how things work. For example, here timer_wrap binding is registered. It exports Timer constructor. In lib/timers.js it's imported It's a feature that essentially goes out and grab the C++ feature and make it available inside the javascript . Take

This is a Lollipop-specific question , since the API has changed. To find out how to do this on earlier versions, see related question: Controlling the Alarm icon in status bar I would like to know how to turn on / off the system Alarm icon in the status bar as shown in this image: Timely Alarm Clock controls this icon on Lollipop as of release 1.3. Prior to that release, the code was using private APIs as detailed in the related question . The new technique they use works on an unrooted Nexus 5 running v5.0.1. Update It looks like there is a lot more the this new API than just changing the