title: Is there a way to add badge notifications using progressive web apps (PWA)?
body: <p>I'm developing a progressive web application (PWA) that will eventually send notifications to users.</p>
  <p>I already know I'm able to send push notifications (like any regular app), as explained in the following blog post: <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/codelabs/push-notifications/?hl=en-us" rel="noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/codelabs/push-notifications/?hl=en-us</a>.</p>
  <p>I also know that I can add a PWA to the home screen, by creating a simple manifest file (<a href="https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/11/Support-for-installable-web-apps-with-webapp-manifest-in-chrome-38-for-Android" rel="noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/11/Support-for-installable-web-apps-with-webapp-manifest-in-chrome-38-for-Android</a>).</p>
  <p>However, after having the app in home screen, I would like to add a &quot;hint&quot; to users, letting they know that they have to access the application. A great way to do that is doing something like a &quot;badge notification&quot; (as showed in Facebook icon on the image below).</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uXW7P.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uXW7P.jpg" alt="Image showing a badge notification example on the Facebook icon" /></a></p>
  <p>Is it possible to add this kind of behavior using progressive web applications?</p>
  <hr />
  <h3>Update - December, 15th, 2018</h3>
  <p>Google recently launched a post explaining about the so called &quot;Badging for App Icons&quot;, which is pretty exciting:</p>
  <p><a href="https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/badging-api" rel="noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/badging-api</a></p>
  <h3>Update - September, 28th, 2018</h3>
  Relevant Links:
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=719176&amp;desc=2" rel="noreferrer">https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=719176&amp;desc=2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=685159" rel="noreferrer">https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=685159</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/mgiuca/badging/blob/master/explainer.md" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/mgiuca/badging/blob/master/explainer.md</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AmX53h-gk8wN7LPMi_Mq7fsIMgsMKRD6zKa1Ymxxvvc/edit#" rel="noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AmX53h-gk8wN7LPMi_Mq7fsIMgsMKRD6zKa1Ymxxvvc/edit#</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>As Josh Lee pointed out in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45377604/is-there-a-way-to-add-badge-notifications-using-progressive-web-apps-pwa#comment92060867_45377604">Is there a way to add badge notifications using progressive web apps (PWA)?</a>, there are some discussions about the subject on the chromium team.</p>
  <p>Looking at the <a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=719176&amp;desc=2#c29" rel="noreferrer">discussion</a>:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>FYI, the notification indicators are being pushed to M-71.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>and</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Thanks for the heads up. That's fine for us because while we hope to have this testable behind a flag in M70, there's no way we'll be launching the API before (at least) M71.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>So, maybe, at least for now, it seems that it's not possible to add badge notifications for PWAs, but maybe in the future we'll be able to do that.</p>