PushNotification badge number not showing when my app is not active?

Question

I'm using Urbanairship for APNS in my app and everything going well but app badge number is not displaying when my app is not running, however when app is active and push is received then badge number is displayed over app icon.

Here is my code as following:

   - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
    {
     UAConfig *config = [UAConfig defaultConfig];
        [UAirship takeOff:config];
        // Request a custom set of notification types
        [UAPush shared].notificationTypes = (UIRemoteNotificationTypeBadge |
                                             UIRemoteNotificationTypeSound |
                                             UIRemoteNotificationTypeAlert |
                                             UIRemoteNotificationTypeNewsstandContentAvailability);

        return YES;
    }
    - (void)application:(UIApplication *)app didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:(NSError *)err {

        NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"Error: %@", err];
        NSLog(@"%@",str);

    }

    - (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo {
        NSLog(@"Received notification: %@", userInfo);
        //[self addMessageFromRemoteNotification:userInfo];

        NSString* alertValue = [[userInfo valueForKey:@"aps"] valueForKey:@"badge"];
        NSLog(@"my message-- %@",alertValue);
        int badgeValue= [alertValue intValue];

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:badgeValue];


    }
- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application {

    application.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;
}

EDIT: i also tried with -

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo {
    NSInteger badgeNumber = [application applicationIconBadgeNumber];
    [application setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:++badgeNumber];
}

but still no luck, what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and from this question

If you also register UIRemoteNotificationTypeNewsstandContentAvailability then remove it and retry.

Answer 2

Your JSON needs to be in following format.

What you have won't properly convert into an NSDictionary.

{
    "aps" : {
        "alert" : "You got your Notification",
        "badge" : 1,
        "sound" : 'default'
    },
    "acme1" : "bar",
    "acme2" : 42

}

Please reference the Push Notification Document.

Answer 3

Use this code may it helps you.

UIApplicationState state = [application applicationState];

if (state == UIApplicationStateActive)
{

   NSLog(@"Received notification: %@", userInfo);
    //[self addMessageFromRemoteNotification:userInfo];

    NSString* alertValue = [[userInfo valueForKey:@"aps"] valueForKey:@"badge"];
    NSLog(@"my message-- %@",alertValue);
    int badgeValue= [alertValue intValue];

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:badgeValue];
}