How to create notification icon badge on Android apps (like iPhone)

Question

I am very new to programming and would like to know what is the best way to go about creating a notification icon badge similar to the ones on the iPhone apps. This would be

Answer 1

Are you talking about a graphical icon? I created a transparent PNG using the gimp and pass that drawable id as the 1st argument to the Notification constructor.

Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.someicon,title,System.currentTimeMillis())