How do I get Google+'s notifications into Android's notification list?

Question

From iOS I'm used to seeing app icon badges and notifications concerning actvity inside apps. Android is lacking app icon badges but it does have a great notification menu -- except that Google+ notifications (the red counter in the black Google bar on all Google's web sites) don't arrive there. I do see the counter in the Google+ app (in Android as well as in iOS) but on Android there's no notification outside of the app.

I think it's weird that Google's awesome social network doesn't send notifications to Google's mobile OS.

I am hoping that it's merely some setting I need to enable on my phone to make these appear. Right? I very much doubt that I really have to launch the G+ app to see notifications, given that so many other apps use Android's notification methods so successfully.

How can I see Google+ notifications in Android's notification list?

Answer 1

Uhhh...I get Google+ Notifications all of the time.

Check:

• Settings | Apps | Google+ | Show Notifications is checked
• In the Google+ app, Overflow menu (three vertical dots) | Settings | Notifications is ON. Tap that entry and choose which types of notifications to get. I see
  • POSTS AND MENTIONS
    • Mentions
    • Shares
    • Comments
    • Comments on a post after I commented
    • Circle subscriptions
  • CIRCLES
    • Adds me
  • PHOTOS
    • Tags me
    • Comments on a photo I am tagged in
    • Comments on a photo I tagged
    • Photos added from Instant Upload
  • EVENTS
    • Invitations or updates to events
    • Reminders about events I'm invited to
    • Activity on events I created
  • COMMUNITIES
    • Invites me to a Community