Adding badge to tab in android

Question

i want to add badge to tab in my app as in iPhone.

Screen shot of badge used in iPhone is in the following link:

Answer 1

This is an example of How to add a badge in tab

chat_tab.xml

This is badge.xml (red circle for notifications background),TextView id:new_notifications background

Then in the code you can simply do

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

        View chatTab = inflater.inflate(R.layout.chat_tab, null);

        tvNewNotifications = (TextView) chatTab.findViewById(R.id.new_notifications);

        intent = new Intent().setClass(MainTab.this, Chat.class);
        tabSpec = tabHost
                .newTabSpec("chat")
                .setIndicator(chatTab)
                .setContent(intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP));

As you can see my Relative Layout has a background @drawable/tab_indicator the tab indicator.xml is the framework's standard drawable of the tab,which i got from the sdk,i suggest you should also get it from the folder of the api in sdk as you also need to copy some images from the drawable folders,you can find it your_sdk_drive:\sdk\platforms\android-8