Drawing the red circle on the iphone

Is there some in-built function where I can draw that red alert circle, like what you see when you have a new message or missed calls?

So I found an easy way to do it, but I have a problem with it.
I created a subclass of UITabBar in which all I did was override the drawRect method to do nothing. I then added a UITabBarItem with no image or text, but I set the badgeValue and that worked well.
My issue now is that the badge is too small for what I want on the screen. Does anybody know how I can make it bigger?
Thanks!

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Drawing the red circle on the iphone

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