Is there a way to add a badge to an application icon in Android?

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Unfortunately, Android does not allow changing of the application icon because it’s sealed in the APK once the program is compiled. There is no way to programmatically change it to a ‘drawable’.

You may achieve your goal by using a widget instead of an icon. Widgets are highly customisable and can do what you want.

There’s a short discussion about the difference between iPhone icon notification and using widgets here:

http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10278814-251.html

As you’ll notice, there is virtually no difference between using a widget or an icon, since they can be the same size and look the same.

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