Push notification badges not appearing?

Question

I'm using Urban Airship to send push notifications to my app

eg:

{"aps": {"badge": 2, "alert": "Part 2 of the August Issue is ready to download!", "sound": "default"}, "device_tokens": ["X"]}

The alert will display perfectly, however the app icon is never badged regardless of what I set "badge":# to...

Is my payload incorrect or is there extra code I'm supposed to add to my app to handle badges as well as alerts? Thanks!

EDIT: I'm registering for push notifications like this:

// Register for notifications
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] registerForRemoteNotificationTypes:(UIRemoteNotificationTypeNewsstandContentAvailability | UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge | UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert)];

Answer 1

I was running with a similar problem. After a few minutes of checking around. I notice that there was a problem with my server side code. I found out that badge value has to be implicitly set as an integer to get the desired result. Hope that helps anyone reading this.