Android icon badge update without notification

[abinocoe]

Is it possible to set the badge indicator to display on android app icons without an accompanying notification in the drawer? Similar to the behaviour of setBadgeCount for iOS

Apologies if this is covered somewhere that I haven't been able to find, just wanted to confirm as I believe from what I've read that it isn't an option, since the badges are meant to indicate presence of a notification which has not yet been read, but for the use case I'm trying to implement, a full notification is not required.