Android: iOS Style Badge App Icon for Sony, Samsung and HTC devices

This post is continue to one of my old post Android Get iOS Style Badge App Icon

Know a days we are seeing facebook,whatsapp and lots of apps are using badges on the app icon and  they are not replacing any app icon and they are able to achieve badge on app icon and we should be having question, How it is possible?

iOS style badge icon is achieved in android by few manufactures (Sony, Samsung, HTC...) but the way of implementation is different from each one of the manufacture for the badge on app icon.

Before implementing the badge on app icon, check the manufacture and then support.

// The manufacturer of the product/hardware.

Build.MANUFACTURER;

Lets go with each of the manufacture implementation:

Sony:

Manifest File changes:

 <uses-permission android:name="com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE" />  

Code Changes:

 try {  
      intent.setAction("com.sonyericsson.home.action.UPDATE_BADGE");  
      intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.ACTIVITY_NAME", "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample.MainActivity");  
      intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.SHOW_MESSAGE", true);  
      intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.MESSAGE", badgeno);  
      intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.PACKAGE_NAME", "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample");  
      sendBroadcast(intent);  
 } catch (Exception localException) {  
      Log.e("CHECK", "Sony : " + localException.getLocalizedMessage());  
 }  

HTC:

Manifest File changes:

 <uses-permission android:name="com.htc.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS" />  
 <uses-permission android:name="com.htc.launcher.permission.UPDATE_SHORTCUT" />  

Code Changes:

 try {  
      Intent localIntent1 = new Intent("com.htc.launcher.action.UPDATE_SHORTCUT");  
      localIntent1.putExtra("packagename", "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample");  
      localIntent1.putExtra("count", badgeno);  
      sendBroadcast(localIntent1);  
      Intent localIntent2 = new Intent("com.htc.launcher.action.SET_NOTIFICATION");  
      ComponentName localComponentName = new ComponentName(this, "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample.MainActivity");  
      localIntent2.putExtra("com.htc.launcher.extra.COMPONENT",      localComponentName.flattenToShortString());  
         localIntent2.putExtra("com.htc.launcher.extra.COUNT", 10);  
      sendBroadcast(localIntent2);  
 } catch (Exception localException) {  
      Log.e("CHECK", "HTC : " + localException.getLocalizedMessage());  
 }  

Samsung:

Manifest File changes:

   <uses-permission android:name="com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.READ" />  
   <uses-permission android:name="com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.WRITE" />  

Code Changes:

 try {  
    ContentResolver localContentResolver = getContentResolver();  
    Uri localUri = Uri.parse("content://com.sec.badge/apps");  
    ContentValues localContentValues = new ContentValues();  
    localContentValues.put("package", "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample");  
    localContentValues.put("class", "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample.MainActivity");  
    localContentValues.put("badgecount", Integer.valueOf(badgeno));  
    String str = "package=? AND class=?";  
    String[] arrayOfString = new String[2];  
    arrayOfString[0] = "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample";  
    arrayOfString[1] = "com.vardhan.notificationbadgesample.MainActivity";  
      int update = localContentResolver.update(localUri, localContentValues, str, arrayOfString);  
      if (update == 0) {  
           localContentResolver.insert(localUri, localContentValues);  
      }  
 } catch (IllegalArgumentException localIllegalArgumentException) {  
      Log.e("CHECK", "Samsung1F : " + localIllegalArgumentException.getLocalizedMessage());  
 } catch (Exception localException) {  
      Log.e("CHECK", "Samsung : " + localException.getLocalizedMessage());  
 }  

Output

Source Code

You can download the source code by clicking Source Code Click Here: .  This project is built using eclipse IDE. Unzip and import the project into Eclipse, it’s a good idea to use the Project by clean and rebuild from the project menu. It works in all API levels above 9

Thanks for reading :) 

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