I am very new to programming and would like to know what is the best way to go about creating a notification icon badge similar to the ones on the iPhone apps. This would be basically for creating a badge for the notifications that end up in the notification bar.
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A:
Are you talking about a graphical icon? I created a transparent PNG using the gimp and pass that drawable id as the 1st argument to the Notification constructor.
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.someicon,title,System.currentTimeMillis())
Wayne Young
2010-04-06 20:34:59
No. I would like to change the icon of the shortcut to the app on the home screen not the image in the notification bar.
MikeFeir
2010-04-08 01:51:33
A:
This is actually an answer from Mark Murphy:
For most phones, you use the number field of the Notification object. See here:
http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-android/tree/master/Notifications/Notify1/
Now, there are a few phones by one major device manufacturer that have
a bug, whereby the number field is ignored. I am working on getting
them to fix it. So you can't absolutely rely on that red bubble being
there, though it will be on most phones.
Macarse
2010-08-22 14:05:15