title: How to display count of notifications in app launcher icon
body: <p>samsung galaxy note 2 android version 4.1.2</p>
  
  <p>I know that this question was asked before and the reply was not possible </p>
  
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    <p>How to display balloon counter over application launcher icon on
    android</p>
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  <p>Nevertheless yesterday I updated the facebook app and it started to show a counter of unread messages private messages. How come facebook app can and I cant do so for my app?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lWZWQ.png" alt="facebook icon"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/m5BJB.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>samsung galaxy note 2 android version 4.1.2 </p>