Badge on App Icon in Iphone App

iphone push-notification badge
Sudy picture Sudy · Jan 25, 2011 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

How could we get a badge notification in the app icon , similar to badge notifications in tabbar item.? I need this for notifying new messages.

Answer

Di Wu picture Di Wu · Jan 25, 2011

You can set the app icon's badge number like this:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber = 3;

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