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by vvanders 2994 days ago
Yup, on Android this is handled by a service called SurfaceFlinger which you can easily inspect from the shell(adb shell dumpsys SurfaceFlinger).

Not sure if it's still the case but back in the ICS days your status bar, wallpaper and launcher/app were all separate surfaces that were scanned out from different frame buffers.