How to show the notification count in app icon?

Question

i like to show the push notification count like this ,i have searched about it but can't get the right solution.

Answer 1

You can set it everywhere. E.g:

-(void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo

{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:123]; // this one
} 

Answer 2

When you receive your notification this method is got called:

application:didReceiveRemoteNotification:

This will contain a NSDictionary

`(NSDictionary *)userInfo`

update the app icon badge count using the function

[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber = [[[userInfo objectForKey:@"aps"] objectForKey: @"badgecount"] intValue];

Your Payload look like this:

{
"aps" : {
    "alert" : "You got your emails.",
    "badge" : 9
        }
}

To hide the badge use Zero(0)

Answer 3

Its called badge, you can write following line to achieve this:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:22];

Please refer to following link if you want to understand its working in sample application:

http://www.touch-code-magazine.com/how-to-add-a-badge-to-the-application-icon/