Displaying number on emails on Gmail icon

[danielcj]

So coming from a blackberry...is there any way of displaying the number of unread emails on your mail icon on your home screen?

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[Tabs85]

Not on the icon itself as far as I am aware. Only the notification section at the top of the screen mentiones how many and a brief overview of the latest one.

There coooouuulllld be an app to sort this out, but I have never looked for it.

 

[N4Newbie]

Search Play Store for 'gmail widget".

For future reference, these "live" icons (clocks, weather, task lists, etc) are called widgets.

 

[Csquared]

You could use Nova Launcher Prime or Apex Pro. They both will display unread email, sms, and a few others.

 

[AbuYazeedUK]

Check out this thread worked well for me

http://forums.androidcentral.com/an...709-how-guide-global-badge-notifications.html