How to change an Android app s name

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Is there a way to change the name  Launcher App Label  of an app without creating a new project   Note  Name of the App and The label shown on the Launcher Icon on Home Screen on Mobiles can be different   Example  On the home page in my Mobile where my apps are  I have an icon and the name Foo  but I want to change the name to Bar  Can I do this

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Yes you can  By changing the android label field in your application node in AndroidManifest xml   Note  If you have added a Splash Screen and added    lt intent-filter gt               lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt               lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt   lt  intent-filter gt    to your Splash Screen  then the Launcher Icon name will be changed to the name of your Splash Screen Class name   Please make sure that you change label   android label   string title activity splash screen    in your Splash Screen activity in your strings xml file  It can be found in Res -  Values -  strings xml  See more here

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There s the android label for the application  and the android label for the launch activity  The former is what you see under Settings -  Applications -  Manage Applications on your device  The latter is what you see under Applications  and by extension in any shortcut to your application  e g    lt application     android label   string turns up in manage apps   gt       lt activity         android name   MainActivity          android label   string turns up in shortcuts   gt                   lt  activity gt   lt  application gt

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Nevermind I found it  It can be done in the manifest file under application just set the android label  Was thrown off at first becasue it didn t change my shortcut of the application s name

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follow the steps  let I assuming you have chosen Android view  app res values strings     lt string name  app name  gt Put your App s new name here lt  string gt

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Yes Of-course        Android Supports to change the name of the App before making build just like iOS  Build Configuration   You can change it by Modifying the Android manifest file for the project

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It depends what you want to do  I personally wanted to rename my project so it didn t say MainActivity at the top of the app and underneath the icon on my phone menu   To do this I went into the Android Manifest xml file and edited   lt activity         android name   MainActitivity          android label   string title activity main   gt           lt intent-filter gt               lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt                lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt           lt  intent-filter gt       lt  activity gt    And edited the android name   Mynewname  and then edited the string title activity main in the strings xml file to match the name   Hope that helps

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To change the name of your Android application in Android Studio or Eclipse  you have to change the value of the property android label defined inside the  lt application gt  node in AndroidManifest xml   android label  My Cool Application     by default the name of the application is referenced to a string defined in strings xml file  for example    android label   string app name    so  we have to change the value inside the strings xml file      lt string name  app name  gt My Cool Application  lt  string gt

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If you are here because when you tried to upload your fresh brand new application using the play console it displayed this error   quot You must use another package name because  quot some package name quot  already exists in Google Play  quot  You just need to go to your build gradle file  your application  and change applicationId  quot some package name quot  to applicationId  quot some package different-unique-name quot  Other answers here didn t fix this error

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You might have to change the name of your main activity  android label  also  as explained in Naming my application in android

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This is a simple thing in Android Studio   go to  res folder -  values -  strings xml  change the app name  in the bellow example MitsuhoSdn Bhd  to any new name you want       lt string name  app name  gt MitsuhoSdn Bhd lt  string gt   lt string name  hello world  gt Hello world  lt  string gt   lt string name  menu settings  gt Settings lt  string gt

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lt application       android icon   drawable app icon        android label   string app name  gt             lt activity             android name  com cipl worldviewfinal SplashActivity              android label   string title activity splash   gt               lt intent-filter gt                   lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt                   lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt               lt  intent-filter gt           lt  activity gt    lt  application gt    To change android app s name   go to activity which is launcher activity and change its label like I have done above in my code

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Edit the application tag in manifest file     lt application     android icon   drawable app icon      android label   string app name      android theme   android style Theme Black NoTitleBar Fullscreen   gt    Change the label attribute and give the latest name over there

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change the app string resource to your new activity

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The change in Manifest file did not change the App name     lt application android icon   drawable ic  logo  android theme   style AppTheme  android largeHeap  true  android label   string app name  gt    but changing the Label attribute  in the MainLauncher  did the trick for me     Activity Label     string app name   MainLauncher   true  Theme     style MainActivityNoActionBarTheme   ScreenOrientation   ScreenOrientation Portrait

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if you want to change app name under launcher icon then change this android label   string app name   inside your Main Launcher activity tag            lt activity android name  com test app                    android label   string app name   gt                     lt intent-filter gt                       lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt                       lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt                     lt  intent-filter gt           lt  activity gt    And if you want to change app name inside      Settings -  Application manager -  downloaded   where you have all installed applications then change this android label   string app name  inside application tag    lt application         android icon   drawable ic launcher          android label   string app name          android theme   style AppTheme   gt                                  lt activity android name  com test app   gt           lt  activity gt                           lt  application gt

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Old question but also now relative to Xamarin Android development  As Xamarin allows for attributes to be used for adding items into the manifest  you may need to open your MainActivity cs file and change the Label tag to your application s name   Note  This attribute will override written android label  tags in your manifest file as I found out whilst archiving the app ready for release so be sure to change this attribute too

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If you re using android studio an item is under your strings xml    lt string name  app name  gt BareBoneProject lt  string gt    It s better to change the name here because you might have used this string somewhere Or maybe a library or something has used it That s it Just build and run and you ll get new name Remember this won t change the package name or anything else

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Go to Strings xml file under values  Change the app name tag to your app name to want and it is all set  you will be able to see the name you change now

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I noticed there are some differences in how the app name can turn up in Lollipop devices  Before Lollipop  you can have different app names with this    lt application     android label   string app name  gt     appears in manage app info      lt activity         android name   MainActivity          android label   string action bar title  gt     appears in actionbar title           lt intent-filter android label   string name in icon launcher  gt     appears in icon launcher              lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt               lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt           lt  intent-filter gt       lt  activity gt       lt activity       In Lollipop  it will be like this    lt application     android label   string name in manage app info  gt       lt activity         android name   MainActivity          android label   string name in actionbar and icon launcher  gt           lt intent-filter android label   string this is useless  gt               lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt               lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt           lt  intent-filter gt       lt  activity gt    In Lollipop  android label in intent-filter is basically useless  while actionbar title and icon launcher is identical  So  if you want a different title in actionbar  you have no choice but to set dynamically  getSupportActionBar   setTitle R string app name

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