How to show Notification Count on My App Icon on H

Question

The question is that Android places new alerts in the system wide notification bar while the iPhone places a notification directly over the specific app icon.

So what i have to do is that, i have to show my app icon with notification count received from C2dm receiver same as it is shown in iPhone with red oval showing the count.

i have referred this == Link 1 and this link == link 2 to do it but no success has yet received.

please provide some guideline to do it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Though it might be possible to do such a thing it is absolutely not recommended to try and change the app's icon. This behaviour originates from iOS and is not used on Android at all.

You can create a widget that shows the unread count and takes the user to your app if the widget is clicked though. The Google Reader Android app offers a good example for that: