phonegap app icon with notifications (number)

Question

Does phonegap application can have an app icon with a number above it which states how many unread notifications are waiting?

Answer 1

The two plugins refrenced in the other answers are now available on server-side PhoneGap Build too:

• <gap:plugin name="de.appplant.cordova.plugin.badge" /> (plugin 384)
• <gap:plugin name="com.phonegap.plugins.pushplugin" /> (plugin 324)

They report to be working with latest 3.0.0 and 3.1.0 versions of PhoneGap.

Answer 2

If you're planning on using push notifications, you might want to use this plugin: https://github.com/phonegap-build/PushPlugin

It has this function for setting the badge number:

pushNotification.setApplicationIconBadgeNumber(successHandler, errorHandler, event.badge);