Android: add badge to icons internal to my app

Question

I am trying to add badges to the icons in my android app. e.g. in the facebook app(for iPhone), in the home page the number of pending requests is shown on the requests icon.

Can someone provide any links/ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you really want to do it. Use a FrameLayout which contains an ImageView with your icon and a TextView with a ninepatch drawable as background in the right corner. Add margins to the ImageView if you want the badge to be a bit outside the icon.

Answer 2

Thanks Alexanderblom ,for the hints.i used that logic and manage to create badge on a internal imageicon.here is the xml file.and you have to just create a red circle on the drawable.

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id="@+id/frameLayout1"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >      <ImageView         android:id="@+id/imageView1"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />       <TextView         android:id="@+id/textView1"         android:layout_width="20dip"         android:layout_height="20dip"         android:text="5"         android:textColor="@color/black"         android:textStyle="bold"         android:padding="2sp"         android:gravity="center"         android:background="@drawable/circle"         android:layout_gravity="top|right" />  </FrameLayout> 

and the circle.xml is

<item>     <shape android:shape="oval">         <solid android:color="@android:color/black" />     </shape> </item> <item android:top="1dp" android:left="1dp" android:right="1dp" android:bottom="1dp">     <shape android:shape="oval">         <solid android:color="@color/Red" />      </shape> </item>