Drawing number badge like iPhone in Android

Question

I want to draw

Answer 1

Look at my answer here for widgets/app.

You can use shapecount.xml

res/layout/tabicon.xml

    
            android:layout_margin="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>

    

When creating your tab:

LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.tabicon, null);
final TextView txtCount = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.txtCount);

spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("artists").setIndicator(view).setContent(intent);

Now you can use txtCount to update the number in the tab's icon. See the post I pointed out above for an example of TimerTask to test this.

You will have to arrange the layout as you wish also