title: How to add a notification badge/count to application icon on Sony Xperia devices?
body: <p>With Sony's Xperia Home, certain apps have the ability to display a count bubble or badge on the app icon. Facebook and Facebook Messenger both do this, as well as the built in Email app. </p>
  
  <p>This has been <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20136483/how-do-you-interface-with-badgeprovider-on-samsung-phones-to-add-a-count-to-the">solved for Samsung's launcher</a>, but I have not come across any documentation on how to do it for Sony's launcher. </p>
  
  <p>How can it be done?</p>